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posto de combustível da YPF, super estruturado. Estacionamento amplo, banheiros limpos, loja de conveniências e lembranças, pequena mercado. instalações novas.
Água, banheiros e ducha (700,00 ARG)

An other nice place to sleep. The view is wonderful, sunset and sunrise are beautiful! Good ATT signal.

Small campground in Apalachicola national Forest near Bristol, Florida. 10 campsites, half with water and electric. Restrooms and showers are clean and spacious, and ADA compliant. Camel Lake is adjacent to the campground, with a small beach and 1.5 mile walking trail around the lake. The Florida Trail crosses just behind the campground.
The campsite are level, with some shade, picnic tables, fire rings, and big enough for larger RVs. Best proof trash cans are scattered around the campground. Sites are close together, within view and ear shot of one another.
Self pay envelopes for those without reservations, however, it was full for my 2 night stay. Suggest making reservations online.

Stayed here for the night. Coordinates are not accurate so read further on the instructions. We didn’t have trouble where we stayed because it was technically still BLM land.

Will have to rename this spot Wigglebutt because we woke up to about 10 signs that someone placed overnight that said “Beware of the Wigglebutt”. Not sure who left it but sure did spook us a bit.

We did get a visit from a local who told he manages cows on the 300,000 of acres of land. Wasn’t sure if his was vibe was to tell us to leave but did say we weren’t welcome unless we smoked weed. 🤷‍♀️

We also forgot to bring firewood with us but we’re able to forage broken branches in the surrounding area. For some weird reason every time I found a glass beer bottle there was a bundle of loose branches to be burned. Thanks to whoever left those clues.

About 10 trucks, 2 RVs that look to be living there and 6 car sleepers. Felt completely safe and it was super quiet. Highly recommend this spot for a quick overnight. Nice big open area for dogs to run too.

Lovely campsite, lush and green, fireplace, washing up/prep sink and station, picnic tables. Ablution block is fine with western toilet and hot water morning and evening from a donkey boiler. superb hike to a lovely waterfall and then up to the first camp stop if you are climbing Mt Kenya, about 4.5 hours in total 800ksh pp for guide. Also a shorter walk to a lovely waterfall and pool just by the campsite. Restaurant and bar if needed and occasionally WiFi available at the lodge. Nice temperature during the day and then quite chilly at night. 1000 ksh pppn

Nice place to spend the night. We slept in the car for one night. Friendly welcome, they have place for two or three cars, but not for big trucks. We paid 500 Dalasi for 2 persons and cars including cold shower. Breakfast for 300 Dalasi for one person. Nice, clean Restaurant directly on the water.

Really loved this places, little beach, possible to swim and snorkel, lot of sea-urchins so wear shoes when going in. Beautiful view on the mountains, lot of birds.

we saw Dolphins and sealions 😁.

good places to stay but lot of sunfly.

Small space for a tent down the trees next to the bridge and just in front of the small santuary.

Super easy, right out front of the building. Fits a 5 gal camping jug. $1 for 5 gal.

Big lot next to the skatepark and the main road but reasonably loud. Quite close to downtown so cool place to park for the day too.
Truckers stop here for the night

Really crowdy during the day on the week-ends, but everyone leaves at night and it was nice and calm.

Stayed here for 6 nights while I was in San Diego! No disturbances but lots of homeless people going through the trash late at night/early morning. Just make sure to move by 8am Mon-Thurs!

a great place to stay for the night, the host was very nice, we paid 15$ without hookups with hookups is 25$, we got to choose what site to stay, a site on the water or a site close to the office. good Wi-Fi but doesn’t get to the sites on the water we had to go to the bar for it.

Wrong location, see different tag in iOverlander, around the corner.

Steep good road up pickup camper no problem. But steep public road up to microwave towers. Not private. This is the best spot good for 2 rvs. Many others higher tho.
View at night and morning are spectacular. 2 bars data.

We stayed 3 nights. It was safe, that's about it. Mixed bag of people here. Big surfing community, upscale homeless encampment, patrons for the bar next door and the locals all park here. About 20 rigs set up, some long-timers even have structures built. Evenings are busy with bar goers and sunset watchers, mornings with surfers. Can have 40-50+ vehicles and rigs here in a moment. Nights and hot afternoons are quiet.

TZN - MLW (Jan 2023, read this!)
Most difficult border post on our whole East African bicycle journey...
1. one of our fellows got ripped of changing money. one of the guys offering their service next to TZN border post followed us until the area between both border posts, offering normal exchange rate. He made some tricks and stole around 60000 TSH, while having protection of some of his guys. Just don't change money on this side of the border. Do it in front of the MLW border post. It's legal.
2. They wanted us to fulfil the following health criteria: cholera vaccination due to current cholera outbreak (although officially not required); yellow fever vaccination (although officially only required if entering from WHO yellow fever risk country, to which Tanzania doesn't belong); electronically verificable covid vaccination card. The latter was the biggest problem, because they don't accept international or European certificates, but only the Malawi one. The guy there told us that indeed you can't even get this online, but only in a Malawi health center. He eventually just wanted to make us pay 100$ for a PCR test, which we refused. Then he wanted the local PCR price (50$), which we refused again. Then he wanted to be bribed (something little for me), which we refused. Finally he just let us go, although some of us didn't even had the other vaccinations.. Just keep on discussing.
3. Although officially stated by ministry for foreign affairs that most tourist countries (e.g. US, France, Germany..) are visa free now to support tourism in Malawi, this apparently is not the case yet. The boss of the border post told us in his chic AC-cooled office that they still need time. Although they Malawi embassy officially confirmed to me (and I've heard it from other travellers) that you'll get Visa on Arrival at the border, this boss told me they don't have such things. So we would have to apply for e-Visa. Two working days. It's Sunday. We did so and paid online. He called his colleague in Lilongwe who went to his office and after two hours the e-visa was granted.. And we could enter
4. Good thing is in MLW that you get a way better exchange rate on the black market than official ATM rate. and that's even legal. officially 1$ is 1050 Kwh, meanwhile black market exchange is 1350 Kwh. As we didn't have a lot of USD left, we brought TSh for change. Official rate: 2300 TSh for 1000 Kwh. We got 1600 TSh for 1000 Kwh. So pretty good deal.
The whole procedure was maybe 4 hours?

Big lot with many big rig trucks parked here.

we spent 6days here very safe lots of other motorhome there, huge parking lot one night there was almost 30 motorhome, there is electricity and water too (Monday to Saturday there are some workers there watering the plants and they always giving water if you ask them they very kind) safe and close to everything lake small football area etc.

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This spot is a no go. Clearly has signs when you pull in no overnight parking, and there’s a security guard that drives around all night. I arrived here late at 12am and within 20 minutes I was told I can not park here overnight by the security guard.

Local pequeno e muito movimento aos finais de semana e em alta temporada. Melhor estacionar nas ruas vizinhas. E chegar bem cedo ou de noite para escolher um bom lugar. no fim da rua tem uma torneira/ducha. A região em si é tranquila, iluminada.

Not the most idyllic, but good overnight spot. We had a quiet night in our pop-up roof, thanks to the little hill you barely hear the road. Nobody bothered us.

Estacionamento público de frente pra praia.

200p for the night with wifi and water, on the grass of the hostel
Safe and quiet night

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Stayed here one night while heading north. There was a bunch of traffic leaving the beach as the sunset (which was amazing) and pretty quiet the rest of the night. Lots of garbage though. Felt safe

Stayed here for a week and felt so at home! Efraín and his partner, Chuy are so kind. Efraín makes coffee for guests every morning and we enjoyed hanging out with them and chatting. We had electric and appreciated the warm/hott-ish showers. The hot water runs out when other people use it but it wasn't a big deal for us.

We used the dump at Rice & Beans down the road but preferred to stay here for the hospitality and proximity to town. We also loved that we were able to give Chuy our laundry and she had it ready for us in just a few hours. So convenient. We'll be coming back here for sure!

Beautiful campsites to choose from, most had a table and/or fire ring, though some were too muddy to drive in. The road to get in and through the park is rough. My dog and I had a great time!

great place. steep descent but possible with my motorbike. Not for big rings! little garbage. good for tents and smaller vehicles. nice river to swim. Fire pit. Sunday afternoon only one other lokal family there. But they left at 5 PM. then i was alone.