In southwestern Namibia lies a vast area thats been off-limits to visitors for more than a century.
This region is known as Sperrgebiet, which is German for “Prohibited Area”.
A warning sign at Sperrgebiet.
It is still largely undeveloped and much of it continues to remain inaccessible to visitors.
The Sperrgebiet is one of the world’s richest diamond beds.
The gems were brought to the earth surface by volcanoes that erupted nearly 3 billion years ago.
On the way out, visitors and workers are meticulously searched by guards and scanned by X-Ray machines.
Every digging machine and truck used since the 1920s sit inside Sperrgebiet rusting.
Map of Namibia showing the location of Sperrgebiet National Park.
Some 600,000 Cape fur seals live here, representing 50 percent of the world’s seal population.
