The Skeleton Coast
(JKB)
When you drive from Khorixas towards the coast, you have to drive through
the Skeleton coast Park.
This is the northern part of the Namib
Naukluft Park,
the world oldest desert.
Skeleton Coast, a strange name. It is called that
way because there are a lot of skeletons of
shipwrecks and of human
beings. Because of the rough sea, a lot of ships ran ashore. The shipwrecked
man who reached the shore thought that they were saved. Unfortunately they
landed on one of the driest places on earth with the nearest village over 200
km away. They all died of thirst.
If you want to drive in the desert you have to register and buy a permit
like in every national park. When you leave the Park you must write out. It is
obliged to take with you per person at least 1.5 liter of water and food for
one day. Your car can break down and there is no road service in the desert....
Lucky a few cars pass everyday.
The
park stretches from north to south a few hundred km and 50 km from east to
west. It is very dry and nothing will grow here. Sometimes you see a Welwitschia. The southern part is
open to the public while the northern part is unspoiled wilderness and visitors
are not allowed there. In the northern part live some desert elephants, a very
rare and threatened species.
We
didn''t see a lot of shipwrecks
because they have been found in the north mainly. Besides of that we ran out of
time: 580 km in one day, 11 hours of light, and the gravel roads were sometimes
in very bad condition.
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