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The Namib Desert stretches for eight hundred miles (1300 kilometres) along the African coastline and is undoubtedly one of the world’s most spectacularly barren and mysterious environments. In Namibia, two large parks encompass much of the Namib: Skeleton Coast Park, in the North, and Namib-Naukluft National Park, in the South.
It is an area of great beauty and solitude, the name, ‘Skeleton Coast’ is no metaphor. Named after the ill-fated seafarers and inattentive whales, this coast is a graveyard for the skeletons of whales, as well as shipwrecks cast up on this remote, misty, gem-rich coastline.
The primary wildlife attraction of the Skeleton Coast is Cape Frio, which harbours a seal colony numbering in the tens of thousands. However, the wildlife here pales in comparison to the land itself, and the most popular adventure travel activity here is trekking along the coast.
Wildlife also includes seals, bottle-nose dolphins, whales, Jackass penguins, and fantastic seabirds including pelicans, petrels, gannets, cormorants and flamingos.
Serra Cafema Camp is one of the most remote safari camps in Africa. Located on the banks of the Kunene River in North-western Namibia, visitors to this camp have access to a range of exciting activities and the opportunity to meet the Himba – one of the last nomadic tribes.
Skeleton Coast Safaris continues its tradition of hosting extraordinary desert experiences for small groups to the Skeleton Coast and its hinterland.
