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Minis aplenty at the 1965 Taça de Luanda. I love the precious few classic motorsport images we have from tropical locations like this delicious scenery from Luanda, Angola.

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Luanda, Angola 2003

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The Baia dos Tigres: Angola’s “Ghost’ Island

The Baia dos Tigres (Tigers Bay) is a small isolated and unpopulated island in the southwestern region of Angola with a land mass of 98 square kms. As the largest and only sandy island off the coast of the 2000 km-long Namib Desert, it remains the least known coastal wetland along desert coast rich in shorebirds.

The Island was once a thriving commercial fishing community in the Portuguese colonial era, connected to the mainland by a small sand causeway. The inhabitants abandoned the Island in 1974 to escape the strong wind, lack of drinking water and the transportation difficulties to the mainland. Filled with hundreds of abandoned Portuguese-style buildings and properties, the structures are now being enveloped by the continual blowing sand.

The Island is only visited now by adventure-seeking tourist groups.

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Makalani Palms on the banks of the Kunene River. From my latest series titled “Palm Wine Collectors”. Check it out on my website.

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“Some Mumuhuila girls wear beaded wigs, rich and colourful, which indicate they have had their first periods but are not yet ready for marriage.” –Mario Gerth, on the hairstyles of the Angolan Mumuhuila tribe (2012)