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Wilderness Skeleton Coast Safari 4 nights - Detailed Information

DAY 1

On Saturday morning will meet at Eros Airport where you will depart at 10h00 to Skeleton Coast Camp. This is 3 hour flight over spectacular desert land meaning that we will arrive at Camp in time for lunch. After lunch there will be a briefing of the desert conditions and precautions that need to be taken in this fragile eco system.

DAY 2

(Days 2-4 Skeleton Coast Camp). This safari is unlike any of our other safaris. As the area is so vast that there is so much to see and experience, we will leave camp after breakfast and spend the full day exploring the park. A picnic lunch is enjoyed out in the wild and we return to the base camp in the late afternoon. We travel in 4x4 Land Rovers and cover an extraordinary variety of terrain. The Skeleton Coast is the name given to the region forming the northwestern coastal belt of Namibia and extends from the Kunene River in the north (bordering Angola) in the north to the Ugab River in the south. This National Park covers approximately 16000 square kilometres and is known as one of the most sparse and fascinating areas in Africa. The Skeleton Coast Park is one of our planet's most inhospitable, but hauntingly beautiful places - it is wild, desolate and uninhabited. It has everything from roaring sand dunes, windswept plains, towering canyons, salt pans to seal colonies, shipwrecks and as well as highly productive fishing grounds. Fresh water springs permeate through barren sands to create rare oases in the desert which sustain pockets of wildlife. Springbok, Gemsbok (Oryx), the Desert Elephant, Ostrich, Jackal and Brown Hyena eke out an existence in this rugged terrain, along with vegetation like Welwitschia which has adapted to the harsh conditions. The Benguela current brings cold waters all the way from Antarctica and helps to moderate temperatures. The cool air off the ocean meets the hotter desert air and nearly every morning, a cool mist envelops the coastline, bringing life sustaining moisture to the desert. There are many regions in the Skeleton Coast, On these safaris, we visit the most isolated, beautiful, remote (and private) northern sector of the park, from just north of Mowe Bay to just south of the Kunene River. This area has been set aside by the government for low volume, exclusive safaris.

DAY 3

See day 2

DAY 4

See day 2

DAY 5

This morning we will have a last excursion into the Skeleton Coast, or you can use the morning to relax at camp. After a hearty brunch, you will be flown to Eros airport to arrive at approximately 16h00, where this safari ends.