I was lucky enough to visit Luderitz last year (2005), while voyaging on the RMS St Helena (the RMS). The RMS stops at Luderitz and Walvis on its way to St Helena, from Cape Town. It's a craggy desert town without much water - the initial inhabitants had water shipped from Cape town or desalinated - these days they've discovered underwater aquifers of water (although it's unknown how long this will last for). The town even has its equivalent of Cape Town's waterfront. Like
Yzerfontein, the main industry revolves around fishing.
Anyways, what sparked off this article was reading the weekend argus today. In the travel section they have an article "No real reason to go to Luderitz". There's a massive picture of a Church next to the article - captioned "The Catholic Church....". Now, if this is a Catholic Church it's the only one I've seen with a picture of
Martin Luther King on its stained glass. While I agree with some of what is written in the article, this kind of mistake makes me feel that it isn't well researched.
The view from the top next to the Church is really stunning. There are loads more pictures on
www.thefamilia.info, under the heading "St Helena".