Ghost Towns

... to me then the second week I will be traveling via Jeep with my son back to Indy. On this journey back we will be seeking out Ghost Towns and traveling upon forgotten and abandoned trails through the hinterlands of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Danny Orr

... mid '60's (and they were only worked for about a hundred years), they've become a tourist attraction. When I heard they were called "Ghost Towns" by the locals, I jumped at the chance to visit. (Many of you know how I love a good ghost story!) Our guide ...

... town but we'd forgotten it was Sunday and nothing happens on Sundays in Argentina – it’s family day. Cities become ghost towns, everything gets boarded up and most people vanish. Walk around an Argentinean city (or any city in South America ...

We head north for a little while to visit some of the ghost towns of the Goldfields. The best preserved town is Gwalia, now an open-air museum. The residents literally deserted the place overnight, leaving many of their possessions behind. Each house has ...

... started with our second visit to Pearce, a town with a long gold, silver and copper mining history, now a Ghost Town.  I've combined the pictures from both visits. Pearce was the center for people associated with the Commonwealth ...

... living in Cambodia - Ex-Patriots) and well, some of the best pepper in the world. Brent and I arrived in a, well, basically a ghost town.  Nothing was open, no one outside.  I almos got on the bus and left.  Luckily, arounf sunset, the ...

... explorer landed in 1488 and home to a pretty red and white lighthouse and sea lions in season). Kolmanskop is now a ghost town, the once inhabited and prosperous houses, casino and tavern are filling up with the encroaching desert sand. the grains ...

... was absolutely dead when I got there (probably also the fault of "Sunday Syndrome"). The next day I went a short distance to a real ghost town, the ex-nitrate mining town of Humberstone. It was very interesting and (in parts) restored, but it really felt ...

Today we toured the so-called ghost town of Jerome, a former copper mining town which literally hangs on the side of a mountain over a mile in the air. It was creepy but interesting. It once had a population of 15,000 but dropped to 50 after the copper ...

... ; Cattle amongst oil wells, windmills surrounded by cotton fields, few buildings and many, many rural villages or towns vacated.  Modern communication and travel, and intensive and specialized agricultural practices have further depleted the rural ...

... out in the dark.  Needless to say, we had a solid and pleasant sleep. The next day, we planned to visit two ghost towns outside of Iquique that used to be nitrate mining towns. Humberstone was a booming community from the late 1800's until the early ...

While others went to the brothel, I just went out for some bangers and mash.  This is an odd little mining town, full of two story brick buildings with wrought iron fencing.  Reminded me a bit of the Frech ...

... , and we would have a place to sleep (other then the car). Per Pickles' suggestion, we looked up a little place called Calico Ghost Town: a historically preserved mining town in Yermo (outside of Barstow). With a jump, skip, and hop into the car, we ...

... statues and temples dedicated to the afterlife.  Some were pretty cool, while others were just silly.  There was even a "Ghost Temple," complete  with a Chinese haunted house. 1:15pm I had a pretty nice snooze a little while ago.  ...

... mountain air to the beaches of Kep. It was a five-star piece of heaven overlooking the jungles surrounding the mountain, the nearby towns, and the ocean beyond. Then, like in Kep, it was all abandoned and taken over by the Khmer Rouge. What had once ...

... , like going on an excursion.   Our first excursion was on our first afternoon to Fengdu Ghost Town. This immediately congers up images of deserted towns with creaking doors and tumbleweed blowing in the wind. Wrong! This ghost town is exactly what ...

... Senggigi Street, in the mornings, was, as usual, silent. Thanks to the profuse sunlight, I felt like walking through a warm ghost town. There were hardly any people except for those staring emptymindedly on the ground. According to the locals, the ...

... . I tried to hitch from here to Siguatepeque but had no joy, so I ended up taking my one and only bus journey between towns throughout my twenty three days in Honduras. San Pedro's streets were deserted at night A great place 2 stay, while in San ...

... . It was fascinating to take in rural Bahia with its almost exclusively Afro-Brazilian population and the dusty farms scratching out a living and the towns clustered on the banks of broad rivers. As usual, I did not especially want to bus to arrive at its ...

... another windy one with some climbing but very quite and clear.  Our  goal was to find Byron, a local pottery artist in a ghost town. This came about when we were eating lunch in Lander and a lady stopped to ask about our trip and she ...