Ten ship­wreck-shaped chalets line the sand dunes of Namibia’s Skele­ton Coast. Inspired by the wrecks that lit­ter Namibia’s Skele­ton Coast, Ship­wreck Lodge is locat­ed in one of the country’s most stun­ning, yet least vis­it­ed, nation­al parks. Namibia’s Skele­ton Coast might not seem like the most ide­al place to stay. Por­tuguese sailors called the coast “the Gates of Hell.” The indige­nous peo­ple of Namibia’s inte­ri­or called it “the Land God Made in Anger.” Then there are the skele­tons that give the region its name, orig­i­nal­ly derived from the bones of whales and seals left on the shores by the whal­ing indus­try, and lat­er asso­ci­at­ed with the skele­tons of more than 1,000 sunken ships that lit­ter the region, vic­tims of coastal rocks, fog, and heavy surf.