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Nice view! Quiet, beautiful and isolated 🙏🏻. A little windy at night.

Nice campground. Stayed in spot 128 in early March. Good cell service. The spots are close, but there is a lot of vegetation in between, so it at least feels a bit more private. Showers use tokens and are very cheap. You can take a shower for .50-.75 cents. Lots of noise from the nearby freeways military helicopters overhead, but not that noticeable inside the van. Would recommend.

Not a Cracker Barrel. It’s a Gas Station with a motel next door.

You can park here during the day but must be on the other side of the concrete dividers to camp.

No camping at the palapas on the beach

If you own any type of VW, air cooled, vanagon, jetta, or any VW, this is the best place in town. The owner speaks English.

execelente lugar, tranquilo. Pasamos 3 noches en un Cole motorhome sin problemas

These are the correct coordinates for this motel. We paid 900 pesos for the entire night. It was a good deal since the surrounding hotels wanted 1200 pesos or more. The room is very clean and quiet. A good place to stay after driving from Bahia de Los Angeles.

This is the correct location. 31.86649,-116.65828

This place is permanently closed.

Army Corps of Engineers camping
Older camp sites $7 camp sites with America the Beautiful pass. TMobile service was good
Toilets, water and electric at camp site. dump station available.

The most recent comment actually belongs on the Playa tenten post. This place is not gated and closed at night. No camping.

Such a pretty campsite. 5000. Hot clean showers. No wifi though some 3G signal on Movistar. I was the only one here the night I stayed and the owner let me stay in the cabin shelter by the fire. Possible to purchase eggs from owners also.

Next to the Highway like previously stated, and the airport! Around 11pm the noise settled a little. It’s nice to be in the city after awhile of being without service or neighbors… right? 😉 Went in for dinner and as always I am grateful for a place to stay and for that feeling of safety. Thanks CBs!

We were sent here by the police from the other spot. It is a wild area behind the lanchas port.

Basic campground with a long drop toilet and shelded picnic table. Just us and one other camper, kangaroos and parrots. Nice rocks.
Weak Telstra reception, good Optus.

Walmart store.
No issues getting permission.
Advised where we should park, we were the only RV there.
Lots of satellite stores all round, including McDonald's.

You can park here overnight. If you have an RV, park in the front lot away from the trucks.
We opted to go across the highway and stay at the Walmart.
Both are good over night options.

Wow! The best spot we found on Ometepe! Bathrooms all night available, restaurant was good, hammocks, trampoline for the kiddos… altogether FABULOUS

with a smaller van you can park here at the side of the rough track. Great views if there are no clouds or haze. A 600 m uphill drive from town. In a couple of spots a narrow track.
Not level but with leveller we managed. No habitation around. Very quiet. Only one car passed by. Few friendly locals passed in the morning. Only little rubbish. Behind is a paragliding spot. That one is littered but not visible from our spot.

Very nice place, but please notice, that this place is located in the King Salman bin Abdulaziz Royal National Reserve.

We stayed two nights near this place and today, at 7.30 am after our second night two friendly Rangers in uniforms, in their official car Toyota FJ Cruiser approached us and asked us to leave.

The reserve is an enormous area with 120.000 squarekilometers, nearly as big as Greece, but it seems that wild camping in the nature is not allowed in the whole reserve.

We didn't know that.

Great option for motorcycles or bicycles near Al Ula. No vehicle access. The access off the road may be a little tricky without a little offroad experience, but much better than the “Moab Camp” nearby. Partially in view of the road, but hidden enough. Good shade due to the sandstone walls. Also some similar options across the road.

A great place to stop if you're exiting or entering Serengeti from Ikoma Gate. Beautiful views over the plains and sunset. At this time of year not many animals in the area (a few giraffe, few buk) but I can imagine when the migration moves through (and brings all the other animals with it) this place would be teeming!! Father Julius wasn't there when we arrived but you can whatsapp him. His staff are lovely and friendly but yes very very limited English. There's undercover parking under a big roof or you can park on the grass too. A small toilet/cold shower and sink area right by the parking but they'll open up the main area up too for a hot shower (be quick or hot water runs out!) and better toilet. It was very peaceful. They asked $10pppn but you could negotiate for sure although we didn't.
I know previous people said they did free game drives all over but be VERY careful going off main road (perhaps ask father julius for advice) as we've heard of people getting hefty fines for going off the main road and accidentally entering somewhere requiring permit (eg Grumeti GR) - there are rangers everywhere.

Tried to pop in for camping but it was completely deserted... really weird. Maybe try contact them beforehand if you're planning to stay.

We exited Serengeti here. About 1.5hrs from Seronera. Very quiet when we came through. At this time there are no permits or fees required for the 'Ikona Wildlife Management Area' which is wedged between Ikorongo and Grumeti reserves. However this might change soon.

Price was actually cheaper than Arusha when we came, wow! Visa machine was working too. There's also a garage here for minor things and fluids etc.

A big gate which was hugely busy with safari vehicles coming and going. Picnic areas with shaded tables, restrooms , etc. We checked out of NCA area and bought our serengeti permit here. if wanting a public campsite you have to choose one but can then change it at the tourist office in seronera if you like. The main road from here to Seronera is TERRIBLE. And actually a lot of roads in the serengeti. our bumper came loose and number plate fell off.
A nicer way to get from here to seronera is take the first right turn a few kms after the gate, this will be a longer but nicer drive over some kopjes and up.

15 days visa cost 50,000. Five working days process, for express the price is double. Need hotel booking.
Too expensive, so I decided to get visa in Yaounde Embassy.

Lovely little place. As stated room was great. Hot showers, opposite a fuel station too (YPF). Quiet at night. Enjoyed staying at this little surprise.

Bike maintenance available in Amsalou’s shop.
Paid 500 birr for a global check and little things to fix.

update! double the price was justified because we did not have a thing called Fastag which is mandatory now. but we drove through about 4-5 toll plazas where they asked triple the amount (we always paid the amount on the billboard before the plaza, never double) until they explained the fastag system. We bought the fastag then near one of the toll plazas for 400 (apparently it has some amount already as a deposit but we have no idea how much yet)