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Open Free wifi. Fast. #conectandoElSalvador. In front of the main square.

Great fun couple of days.
Rather expensive. Prices are from 88,000 to 172,000 COP.
We parked overnight at the top of Hotel Africa. Saves the vehicle entrance fee for the second day.
Most of the animals seem to have decent size pens and plenty to stimulate them. Few of the animals were paces up and down the fence line of their cages, which was sad to see.
Note. The water parks are only open from 11:00-16:00 to assist planning your day(s).

There is a porta potty, however it was turned over on its side when I went there. Not sure if that was from vandals or if the severe thunderstorm that was going on when I arrived did it. (Although the wind didn’t seem crazy enough to achieve that). I didn’t end up staying overnight because the storm was freaking me out too much, but the park seemed nice aside from the unusable porta potty. I had driven to this location and the camp on the other side of the lake and saw no other vehicles there, but that again may have been the storm’s doing.

as described between pump 3 and 4! perfect place for gas and water refill

amazing landscape BUT in beginning of may really much snow only possible to pass with bicycle which is also a hard struggle and really Dangerous. in summer maybe possible with 4WD. under 2800m camping spot is easy to find. Plan enough time for it especially in spring and autumn.

Unfortunately the night was not good. No one was in the parking lot at 6:30 p.m. but at 2 a.m. a vehicle parked right next door with music. Stopping around 4 a.m. then starting again at 6 a.m.... Too bad the site is magnificent in the early morning.

Marked as 8 hr stay but I stayed longer. Gets really quiet late at night with traffic noise starting around 6am . Had one person honk at me to be a typical jerk to wake me. Beautiful view of the bay and acess to beach, dirty toilets but functional with caution. *Parked at north end to be out of view of the houses above.

Dump station and non-potable water available - dump station is open

out off season was an entire empty campground for us. everything is nice and clean. hot showers, clean toilets and 220v outlets in each barbecue.

Went for groceries and water today - the water machine is on and working!

As described use the Upper lot. No restrooms here, but a beautiful view!

Had a great stay without any problems. Relatively quiet.

Forest Road 12, west of Sisters, Oregon. Disbursed camping on USFS land. Many ideal spots, with two creeks nearby.

Stayed one night here with no issues. This is a great spot, leave no trace!

KE -> ET

It's not quite a one-stop yet, you still have to do KE exit customs up the hill back toward KE, on the left side, last building before the exit gate to KE.

The KE customs guy took half an hour to stamp out my carnet. He was on the phone for a bit of that.

KE exit immigration guy sauntered in 1 hr late (09:05) and stamped out pretty straight forward.

ET Health registered our passports and looked at YC.

ET entry immigration was pretty straight forward.

ET customs guy checked my bike VIN and looked through panniers. Probably 45 minute process including paperwork.

I used Muller (see a previous post) - Muller got me a ET Ministry of Tourism letter, and one on his company letterhead (Simien Eco Trek).. I started the process with him last Monday, got those letters Thursday. I brought them to ET embassy in Nairobi (actually I emailed them to Dabang Ruot Gach, having met with him at the embassy a few days before) and picked up the letter from Gach late Friday. Sent scan to Muller who delivered it to ET customs commission in Addis Saturday morning. On Tuesday around noon the customs commission approved, and sent their own letter to Moyale ET customs.

I visited yesterday to try to clear customs a day early. KE customs wouldn't stamp, and ET customs took a long time to track down the customs commission letter (I never received a copy). Eventually they found it and said come back tomorrow when crossing.

So, almost done, just finishing the final bit of customs paperwork now. Whole process about 2 useless hours yesterday, 30 minutes of waiting for staff to arrive this morning, 30 minutes KE customs, 5 minutes ET health, 10 minutes KE immigration (two people), 15 minutes ET immigration, and one hour 15 minutes ET customs.

They stamped the Carnet in.

Nice rest stop. Bathrooms, lots of parking and picnic tables. Good service with AT&T and Verizon.

Nice place. We did a bonfire. At night very quite!! 👌

Pretty fast Internet, some plug points. Very large menu, decent portions, great customer service, Don Jose is a lovely person.

Good place to sleep for one night.
much space.

Great place to stay
With water and electricity
Free

Great spot! Perfect when you are tired or have issues getting over the pass. I blew an air suspension line and needed to be done for the day! Great cell reception. Please no campfires! Trail worker stopped and said camping is fine but if there is evidence of a fire they would have to call the sheriff and would have to close the spot

Day use has a $5 fee, this is a state park. Day use parking is probably about a 10 min walk to the showers. The shower in C is right across from camp hosts. No parking other than camp sites nearby. I felt weird trying to sneak in but the campground is lovely so at only $23 a night, I splurged and reserved a spot. The shower was just warm, not hot. No temp control. But it did the job.

baños en muy buen estado y limpieza, duchas con agua caliente las 24hs. fuimos el primero de mayo y fue gratis. no sabemos.si por la fecha o por ser fuera de temporada. algunas campers. nos sentimos seguros.

The gates were closed when I went 👎 wouldn't recommend

Still there, still looks nice. But they wanted 20 Soles for each bycicle per night. So we didn't stay. Prices are a little higher now, but still a good deal of you are not on a bycicle.

Pros- free
Cons-
Unleveled
Rocky
Bug infestations
Homeless camps
Partying till 4am
Quads all night long till 3am.
Trash

Your call.

car camped here on our road trip for 4 nights. there's a car park with 'no overnight parking, signs but we spotted a few other RVs and campers here.
we had no trouble, had council workers in and around us in the morning. none of them said anything to any of us, washrooms are locked at night and are unlocked at around 8 am.
felt very safe here!

Lots of BLM designated camping spots. Road rough but doable with 2wd.

We were happy because we could park our motorhome (6.60m) here for 10000 for 24h. There is a watertap and the water is potable. We could sleep in our motorhome. There is only one place along the wall for a big rig. We felt safe, but the barrio is not the best one. The parking did the job.

After made the cruce Panama-cartagena, something made bad sound in the wheels, so contact with David, and he help us and fixed the problem.

The bearings were destroyed and the gearbox and we fixed a brake leak. He helps us with everything and even if it is a holiday, any problem you have you can call him, a couple of hours from Cartagena