Skeleton Coast Camp

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Location: Skeleton Coast, Wild Namibia

Accommodation Description

While you may indeed encounter skeletons of ships, elephants, whales and tiny lizards, this vast and uncharted region of the Namib Desert is home to many fascinating living creatures and plants. And even more fascinating landscapes and bizarre juxtapositions of sand and sea, and life and death.

Skeleton Coast Camp is yet another impossible contrast. Sheer luxury and almost endless supplies lie in the heart of a 300,000ha private concession that could swallow up a small city without a trace.

Built on an island in a dry riverbed, the camp comprises six luxurious tented suites and a serene living area that looks out into the endless desert.

Facilities

Six luxury Meru-style tents; private patios; en suite bathrooms; central lounge, bar and dining area with views of the desert; library; outside eating area under an old leadwood tree

Activities

Activities range from day and night drives to full-day walking safaris - the sights and experiences are enthralling. Excursions to seal colony and natural springs; coastal ecology; visit to a working Himba village; tracking desert-adapted elephants; clay castles, roaring dunes and lichen fields

On any one of your daily excursions you could encounter whales, in their mating and calving seasons; seals and sea lions being hounded by spotted hyena; clay castles of the Hoarusib River; roaring dunes; lichen fields, flowering stones and ancient welwitschia plants; nomadic Himba villagers; shipwrecks next to whale skeletons; and waterholes visited by elephant, cheetah, gemsbok, springbok, giraffe, brown hyena, ostrich, jackal, foxes, honey badger, genet. And then there are several near endemic birds.

Page last updated: 8 Mar 2011