Skeleton Coast
The Skeleton
Coast is the northern part
of the Namib Naukluft Park, the worlds 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. 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 very rare and threatened
species.
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