Skeleton Coast
Good to know
- Best time to go
- May to October for cooler, clearer conditions
- Budget
- $$$
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A fog-bound shoreline where the Namib Desert meets the cold Atlantic, littered with shipwrecks, whale bones and seal colonies. Its stark dune fields and gravel plains support surprisingly hardy desert wildlife, and access to the remote northern reaches is largely by fly-in safari.