Skeleton Coast National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
National park located on the northwest coast of Namibia
About Skeleton Coast National Park
Namibia's Skeleton Coast continues to be a synonym for the horrors a sailor could face when his ship sank. Sharp rocks just underneath the water surface and thick fog during dusk and dawn along the entire coast posed a danger to ships, and when a shipwrecked crew did make it to land, they faced a belt of almost 100 km of desert, without any water or food sources and bare of any human settlement. All along the coast are the bodies of ships and there are many stories of sailors dying or only escaping the desert by accident. Skeleton Coast National Park has its southern boundary at the Ugab river and stretches northward to the Namibian border with Angola. The further north you get the more desolate the area becomes. Rocky desert with occasional sand dunes
Skeleton Coast National Park Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 12 sections including: