There is a disturbing contrast along South Africa's remote west coast.
The 800km (500 mile)-journey north from Cape Town starts with views of outstanding natural beauty which as the long road rolls on, and the northern border approaches, dissolve into a pockmarked lunar-like landscape.
And the scars left by a lucrative diamond-mining industry are not just physical.
The impoverished local Nama community living amid the environmental degradation in the far north-west of South Africa – also known as Namaqualand - wonder what has happened to the riches their land has yielded.
Some of the hundreds of millions earned went on to build the country, but not much, it seems, stayed within the area.
