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Rising up to 2300 feet, Kalavantin Durg is older than it is tall. The fort is not much more than a cave built on the pinnacle of the jutting stone that gives a spectacular view of the surrounding lands, which is probably what it was built for. It's said, though, that it was built for a princess or, possibly, a queen: Kalavantin, but there are no historical records to back that up. The only up to the fort is the "Climb to Heaven," narrow, hand-carved stairs that take hours to climb.
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As an added bonus, the ghost town Kolmanskop:
Kolmanskop is located in the Namib desert much in the same way as the diamond that caused it to spring into existence: it was just lying there. A railway worker found it in 1908 and turned it over to his German supervisor, leading to a flood of German diamond miners and a quickly flourishing town. But the field was mostly depleted by the end of World War I and completely abandoned by the 1950s. Since then, it has been featured in a number of films and TV shows.
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