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NAMAQUALAND: ONCE HILLS OF COPPER, NOW FIELDS OF FLOWERS.(Getaways)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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October 24, 1996
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Not much happens in this mountain town built around the rusting hulk of an abandoned copper mine in South Africa's parched northwest.
Folks mostly talk about the past, an era of mine barons and runaway outlaws that made the region the closest thing to America's Wild West.
Then times changed and copper prices collapsed, leaving Okiep as just another lonely backwater with few links to the old days.
Except for the flowers.
In one of the world's great natural spectacles, the surrounding countryside of the Namaqualand region blooms in a ...
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