Skeleton Coast tour

Itinerary in details

We could list our destination names here, but as we are going into no-mans land, the names of the places don’t carry much meaning to someone who doesn’t know the desert intimately. Furthermore, we are playing our cards close to our chests otherwise there will be 50 photo tours into this desert in the following year as all the operators are desperate for a new destination in Namibia. What we can tell you is the following –

Day 1 – All participants will be received at Walvis Bay airport and taken to our guesthouse on the lagoon. Once checked in, we’ll do a briefing on the days to come as there is a lot of important information to share. Once the briefing is done we’ll go for dinner and make sure we get to bed early.

Day 2 – Starting before sunrise, we will travel inland and enter the desert from the East in order to give you a feeling for how the dunes change from East to West and show you many of the desert’s incredible and unique attractions along the way. We will either camp at a beautiful high viewpoint of the coastal dunes or next to a shipwreck on the beach.

Day 3 – The mornings will start very early as our astro shoots will happen primarily in the mornings, when the milky way is on the western horizon. After sunrise and breakfast, we will move south, passing several abandoned diamond mining towns, but our aim is a special area of the desert with colourful dunes, amazing wind-eroded boulders and lots of quartz-rich sand that makes amazing macro-ripples.

Day 4 – After another early start for astro and sunrise, we will head West, passing the Eduard Bohlen, to a stunning section of the coast with very high dunes that overlook the sea with great panoramic vistas. This is a short driving day, which will give us a relaxing afternoon to nap, shoot or enjoy some G&T’s.

Day 5 – Following another early morning, we’ll drive north towards an area with incredible wildlife, including flamingoes and pelicans as far as the eye can see, other birdlife including dune larks and jackal, oryx and hopefully brown hyena. This is another short day of driving and once camp is setup, we can go in search of wildlife either on foot or by car.

Day 6 – Our fifth day is a contingency day that will be allocated by popular demand. We can either use it as a 2nd day at the wildlife destination or to return to the shipwreck in case the mist spoiled our astro photos on the first attempt.

Day 7 – On the final day we’ll shoot sunrise, have breakfast and we should be back in Walvis Bay around noon. After washing the sand out of our everythings, we’ll go for a big lunch, followed by a download and editing session.

Day 8 – On the 8th day we’ll get everyone back to the Walvis Bay airport in time for their flights out.