This wildly beautiful but dangerous shore, one-third of Namibia's western coastline, stretches from the Ugab River in the south to the Kunene River, the border with Angola, in the north. The Portuguese seafarers who explored this area in the 15th century called this treacherous coast with its cold Benguela current and deadly crosscurrents the "Coast of Death." It newer, no-less-sinister name, the Skeleton Coast, testifies to innumerable shipwrecks, to lives lost, to bleached whale bones, and to the insignificant, transient nature of puny humans in the face of the raw power of nature. This region has a stark beauty and an awesomely diverse landscape—gray gravel plains, rugged wilderness, rusting shipwrecks, desert wastes, meandering barchan dunes, distant mountains, towering walls of sand and granite, and crashing seas. You'll rarely see more than a handful of visitors in this inaccessible and rugged coastal area.

Skeleton Coast National Park extends along this rugged Atlantic coast and about 40 km (25 mi) inland; the 200-km (125-mi) stretch of coast from Swakopmund to the Ugab River is named National West Coast Tourist Recreational Area.

Tour route: (please detail the route in order and draw map & confirm product launch date)
Ship wrecks –> Wlotzkasbaken –> Lichens –> Desalination plant –> Coastal plant life –>
Bird Paradise –> Tidal Pools –> Sand roses –> Swakopmund Salt Pans – END