Check-Ins

Stayed here for the night. Campsite was fully booked and they offered us to sleep in our rooftop tent or in the beds provided in the Bird Hide. Toilet, shower and braai pit available.
Because it’s a public viewpoint you are only allowed to pitch up tent after 5 p.m and leave early in the morning. We payed 715 ZAR for two people and had a wonderful lonely night enjoying the bush.

it's not closed. I've been using it for weeks!

I highly recommend!!! What a great 50m swimming pool!!! Each campsite has it's own shadow for only 132NDpppn. The place is peaceful. We ate burgers and milk shakes and it was really nice. What a nice surprise! The staff is really professional and kind. Don't miss this place after or before Etosha 😉

As discribed, way done to fireplace a bit bumpie. Some freedom under car necessary. Beautiful. Access to beach available. 2bars with rogers.

Dispersed Camping

3 bars on verizon

very quiet

The correct park name is Westport Light State Park.

This place is permanently closed.

Great free parking spot to access the Cali. Heaps of cafés and restaurants.
Decent Claro signal
No facilities.

When you get to the turn off, there is a barbed wire fence that said no trespassing

Nice park, location is easy in easy out. Water, Dump, Electric $70 night. We would have dry camped some place if not visiting family.

A little bit outdated, but really beautiful, regardless. I'm here in a van in late April and have several sites near me empty. However, they said that the weekends are full. There's lots of great space between sites. Reserve if you were looking at weekends are busy periods. Enjoy.

Local calmo após as 20:00, possui chuveiro, água potável, conveniência.

1AM knock from the sheriff. He kindly told us that it is day parking only. We could stay the rest of the night. He suggested next time go south the road to Libbey Beach Park and there we could stay, no problemo.

24 hour bathrooms ..well lit huge lot ..covered picnic tables ..plenty of room to roam

Great campsite, has spots for reservations and fcfs. tidy.

stayed for 2 nights, if you're coming from the roundabout it's on your right hand side.

2 ppl in one room with 2 single beds and a fan. private bathroom only available for rooms with double beds, so we had to use the shared bathroom in the hallway which wasn't the end of the world as we were the only people here.

paid 12000 a night for the two of us which is pretty decent in my opinion. staff was pretty friendly and place was clean enough. wifi's a bit slow and there was no hot water in the shared shower, not sure about the private bathrooms.

also it's pretty easy to walk to the old city centre from here, but it does take about 30 minutes.

Nice spot reasonably flat right in town. Parking all day is 500 or 1000 depending on size (9-5), overnight appears to be free. We were directed here by the tourist info office.

we ended up spending the night at the border as we arrived just after it closed.

we stayed with a trucker at the petrol station a bit closer to the border, but this one is honestly so much nicer. we asked our trucker why nobody went to this shell one and he said that the old petrol station has a lot of history and truckers have been going there for decades.

we did walk over to this petrol station though as it actually had free wifi! (just go inside and ask for the password) it also had a very clean modern toilet

stayed here with a trucker who gave us a lift to the border. the whole place is very very old. there's a brand new shell petrol station a bit further back which is soooo much nicer + it has free wifi and a free clean bathroom. so if you're camping I'd definitely recommend going to the shell petrol station instead of this one.

the reason you'll see all the truckers parked here instead of at shell is just because they've been coming to this one for decades, but it's definitely better to stay at shell if you're camping!

Morocco to Mauritania:
easy border crossing. crossed without vehicle.
checked out of the Moroccan side without any issues and then started walking across to Mauritania. it's honestly quite far, but after about 20 minutes of walking a car drove past who offered us a free lift to the Mauritanian side.

my friend didn't have 55 euros to pay for the Mauritanian visa, so she had to pay in MAD.
ended up paying 650 mad which is about 60 euros.

Exchanged our last 100 dirham at 3.8 ouguiya/ mad, official exchange rate that day was 3.95

Also it's worth noting that here, and in Mauritania in general, people usually still talk about money using the old currency, which has an extra 0
So for instance if a taxi driver is saying a short ride will cost "deux milles" (2 thousand) he actually only means 200 ouguiya

police tried to make us buy a ticket and told us it's no longer possible to ride the empty train(which isn't true)

probably the easiest way to avoid this is by just going a few hundred metres further down the track (east side) and jump on there. passenger carts stop at the station, but they're all the way at the very end of the train, so most of the train will drive past the station before stopping and you can just jump in there

Stayed above on the parking lot; just a big open and levelled space. As said before it's still not possible to drive down with a 2WD, but it's nice enough up here!

stayed here after riding the iron ore train. checked in at 1am which wasn't a problem at all, just message them beforehand to let them know. had a hot shower and there's also wifi available here when we stayed (although I'm still not sure if it was actually wifi or just a personal hotspot)! paid 800 for 2 ppl in a private hut

not sure why this place has been marked as closed, it's definitely still open.

just drive to the very end of the road and you'll find this oasis, you do have to walk the last few hundred metres. it costs 200 (per person) to visit the oasis for the day and another 300 (per person) if you want to sleep in one of the tents there.
If you have your own tent you can put it up for 200 a person I believe it was
Food is also available for about 200/300 a meal. the guy working here, Jamal, is absolutely lovely!

Western toilet available.
Also you can actually drink the water from the oasis, just ask Jamal and he'll show you where to get it from.
No wifi and no phone service at the oasis.

nice place, stayed in a hut on the roof for 800/ night (2 people)
Both single beds came with a mosquito net, which we were very thankful for!
shared shower and toilet, which don't have a roof, but that's definitely not a bad thing.

restaurant available on site, but quite expensive. because of this we didn't have anything, but to be fair, the food did look amazing and if you're not on a tight budget, you should definitely try the food!

they'll also let you use the kitchen if you buy your own food. just keep in mind that they use this same kitchen for their restaurant so it can be quite busy if you try to use it around dinner time.

It's also possible to pay with revolut here, which was perfect for us!

Argentine --> Chili a thuesday at 8:40 PM:
- Argentine migration: 2mn
- Argentine customs: 3mn
- Drive between the 2 border buildings: 2mn
- Chili migration: 2mn
- Chili customs: 8mn
- Chili SAG: 5mn
- Chili vehicule inspection: 4mn (just open the fridge of our camper van).

Total: 35mn. One of the fastest and easiest border crossing since Alaska!

crossed on foot from Mauritania to Senegal.

showed up and instantly got approached by about a billion guys all saying stuff to me in French. I don't really speak french and I feel like it's a good thing as it made it a lot easier to ignore them.

Just keep walking till someone in a uniform tells you to show him your passport. he then gave our passport to some other random guy who took us to a window where we got stamped out of Mauritania.
The guy that just took our passports then asked for money. We asked him why and he said we should give him money because everything else here was free, the visa is free, the boat is free, so we might as well give him some money. We told him no and he got angry, but eventually gave up.

just before getting on the boat I finally agreed to exchange my remaining 550 ouguiya. managed to get 7500 CFA for it (official exchange rate 8400 CFA)
first offers we received were as low as 3000 CFA.

they will also tell you it's impossible to exchange your money on the other side of the river, which simply isn't true.

We then tried to get on the ferry, but some guy stopped us and tried to sell us a ticket for the ferry.
The ferry is free, so we just laughed at him and got on anyways. He yelled something at us in french, no idea what he said, but don't think it was very friendly.

On the Senegalse side we got off the ferry and someone in uniform was waiting to collect everyone's passports. We then had to go to another building where he eventually brought everyone's passports to and we got stamped into Senegal.

Then walked for a bit, away from all the taxis, and then from there managed to hitchhike to Saint Louis

The laguna is absolutely worth a visit! The colour is mesmerising. 1700 pp. Short walk from the parking lot.

Nos quedamos 2 noches en motorhome a metros del lago.Todo maravilloso. Los dueños excelente. Contacto por Whatsapp +5699 3446 5575.

Cuenta con todos los servicios, además tienen cabañas. El precio bajo. Más que recomendable!

Contacted them via WhatsApp and was told that they no longer allow people to stay in their vehicles and use the facilities.