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Reading the signs (in northern Namibia: #5 in series)

 

There is at least one of the world’s “malls” which Paris Hilton has never shopped.

It is surely safe to assume that no visiting North American tourist will ever feel compelled to enter this mall for a dose of “retail therapy”…

…which is a pity; this uncommonly modest “mall” sits within an uncommonly grand natural environment; the latter could do any attentive tourist far more good than would anything that has a price tag.

Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken in northwest Namibia. (where the Ugab is one of its major rivers, albeit one where water only rarely flows above ground level)

Published in Americas and Eurasia and Africa nature and travel photographs

2 Comments

  1. Alison Bunker Alison Bunker

    Hi Doug
    I am loving your photos from Namibia, thank you. But this one has me truly puzzled: what the igloo is doing there?

    • Thank you for your kind words, Alison. The igloo-like structure is pre-fabricated, I think. My (very possibly wrong) hunch is that it may be insulated, and that it functions as cool room/cold storage for the “mall”. Then again, it could instead/as well be the “hi tech” toilet/washroom for the “mall”. It is just possible that someone lives in it….

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