Namibia's Skeleton Coast

     The Namib Desert stretches for eight hundred miles (1300 km) along the African coastline and is undoubtedly one of the world's most spectacularly barren and mysterious environments. In Namibia, two large parks encompass much of the Namib: Skeleton Coast Park, in the north, and Namib-Naukluft National Park, in the south.

     It is an area of great beauty and solitude, the name, 'Skeleton Coast' is no metaphor. Named after the ill-fated seafarers and inattentive whales, this coast is a graveyard for the skeletons of whales, as well as shipwrecks cast up on this remote, misty, gem-rich coastline.