Lost landscapes in Belgium
1) Lommelse Sahara
The Lommelse Sahara is a strange desert landscape of pure white sand planted with pine trees. It occupies an abandoned industrial site in the Kempen region where quartz sand was once mined and a polluting zinc factory killed off all the trees. This bleak wilderness was later used by a weapons manufacturer to test grenades, but it has been turned into a nature reserve, with hiking trails, an observation tower and a lake in the former quarry.
![water and trees at the Lommelse Sahara](https://images.the500hiddensecrets.com/2019-03/schermafbeelding_2019-03-18_om_15.06.01.png?auto=format&fit=max&h=1080&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=65&w=1920&s=64c99cc456a207e32dbb2abaa2190cac)
Roel Hendrickx
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