Skeleton Coast Fly-in Safari

Take a fabulous scenic flight into the heart of the remote Skeleton Coast where you stay at Skeleton Coast Camp. This luxury camp which only accommodates ten people is situated in a 300,000 hectare reserve - it is a beautiful, wild and desolate spot! The camp is built on an island in a dry riverbed twenty kilometres from the coast. Each tent is large and roomy and has an en-suite bathroom, with hot and cold running water. There is a wonderful old gnarled leadwood tree which offers shelter from the elements and is the 'dining room' for alfresco dining.

A visit to Skeleton Coast Camp is unlike any of our other safaris. You visit the most isolated, beautiful and remote northern sector of the park, between Mowe Bay and the Kunene River - a wilderness zone of some 300,000 hectares. The area is so vast and there is so much to see and experience, that traditional early morning and afternoon activities are abandoned in favour of full days of exploration enjoyed with a picnic lunch stop. The camp uses Landrovers with pop-top roofs. Walking may also play a part in the activities since due to the pristine nature of this area much of it is accessible only on foot.

It has everything from soaring sand dunes and plains, to towering canyons, mountains, salt-pans, seal colonies and shipwrecks as well as some interesting gameviewing. Freshwater springs permeate through the barren sands to create life-sustaining oases in the desert for small pockets of wildlife. Hartmann???s Mountain Zebra, Springbok, Gemsbok, desert-adapted elephant, Cape Fur Seals, Brown Hyena, ostrich and occasionally Cheetah may be found in this rugged landscape. A visit would be incomplete without a trip to the small Himba settlement just outside the park.

We offer our fly-in safaris to the Skeleton Coast as three or four night departures from Windhoek. Pick-ups and drop-offs are also possible from Damaraland, Palmwag, Okonjima or Swakopmund. (A pick-up or drop-off from Ongava is also possible for a small surcharge.)