Atlantic Coast

Skeleton Coast

Where the desert meets a wild, fog-bound ocean

A hauntingly beautiful coastline of shipwrecks, seal colonies, roaring dunes and shifting sea fog.

The Skeleton Coast earns its name from the bleached whale bones and rusting shipwrecks that litter its shores. It is one of the most remote and atmospheric places in Africa, where Atlantic rollers crash against an endless desert.

Visit the vast Cape Cross seal colony, or fly into the far north for true end-of-the-earth wilderness.