20kms inland, and built on a small island of sand in the dry Khumib riverbed, is the Wilderness Skeleton Coast Camp. It is set within the Skeleton Coast Park, in a 16,400km² private concession. There are no other camps for miles, and if it is remoteness a visitor is looking for – then here it is!

This camp has been built to withstand even the harshest extremes of the environment. The main area has a dining room, lounge and bar area, surrounded by glass 'concertina' doors, to allow for continuous, undisturbed views of the surrounding desert. In favourable climatic conditions, guest can wine and dine under an ancient leadwood tree, around a camp fire, whilst gazing at the beautiful, clear Namibian star-lit skies. Power supply to the camp is from solar energy.

There are 6 luxury tented rooms, built on raised wooden decks at Wilderness Skeleton Coast Camp. They all have en-suite bathrooms, with a flush toilet, hand basin and shower. Locally found natural materials have been used to furnish the rooms, and they all have overhead fans and 12v lighting. Complementary soap, shampoo and insect repellent is supplied in each tent, as well as its own safe. Due to a shortage of fresh water in this area, guests are always asked to keep water usage to a minimum.

Every night, guides discuss with their guests around the dinner table, what activities are possible and available for the next day. Tours are done in closed 4x4 vehicles, with pop-top roofs and sliding windows. Activities include full-day nature drives or walks with a picnic lunch. These tours return to the camp in the evening. Many parts of the area are only accessible on foot, as vehicle tracks can damage the environment. The specially-adapted plant species, such as Lithops and Welwitschia, are viewed on foot.

Other excursions include visits to the clay castles of the Hoarusib River, Rocky Point, the roaring dunes, lichen fields, and Himba villages. A wide variety of birds can be viewed around the camp and on tour, including several of Namibia's desert endemics, the Tractrac Chat, Rüppell's Korhaan and Gray's Lark. Sights of shipwrecks, can be seen from various vantage points, but the remains are fast being devoured by the harsh, salty Atlantic Ocean.

A variety of wildlife are attracted to the area, including gemsbok, springbok, giraffe, ostrich, brown hyena, Hartmann's Mountain Zebra and occasionally lion and cheetah. Desert adapted elephant and even black rhino have been spotted roaming up and down the dry river beds of the area.

Wilderness Skeleton Coast Camp is only accessible by aeroplane. Children over the age of 8 years are welcome at the camp.

The Wilderness Skeleton Coast is only visitable on either a 4 or 5 day fly-in safari departing from Windhoek. For more details about how the trip is structured look at the Wilderness Skeleton Coast Fly-In Safari

The area is so vast and there is so much to see you 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 base camp in the late afternoon. We travel in 4 x 4 Land Rovers and cover an extraordinary variety of terrains. On the days activities you are likely to see a seal colony and natural springs, and abundance of the Skeleton Coasts ecology, visit a working Himba village and spend time tracking Desert Elephants. Time allowing you may also visit the clay castles / roaring dunes / lichen fields as well as other areas of amazing geographical diversity.

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This Skeleton Coast Camp can only be reached by light aircraft

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