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More like a parking lot in the city, but they do have hot showers!
45 dirham pp with a camping car.

Hidden, quiet wild camping spot between mountains and next to lake.

It is so beautiful that this is the second time we overnight here.

The road is wide enough to turn around with even a 12 m long bus.

We asked the police and they said it's not a problem to overnight there. Beautiful scenery.

There is a brand new bridge to cross the river. Big rigs still have to use the ferry until they completely finish the construction.
We had to take the ferry and it all took us about 2 and a half hours.

Nice, clean pretty place but not extremely cheap. 7000 per vehicle per night + 3000 per night for electricity.
Rochene is really helpful, you can ask for anything (laundry, car rental, mechanic, etc)
Taxi is 500 to the town.

We have experienced the opposite:

Proper entrance gate with a smiling military guy. We payed 50 000 pp and got back a bill without even asking for it. He showed us around and checked in later if we need something.
We could also fill up our water tanks (almost 1000 l) from the Chinese stuff of the dam.

The place is the safety zone of the Kinkon Dam with a beautiful big waterfall in it. Safe and quite so we stayed one more night for 50 000 extra.

The same for us: easy and quick process. Coming from Guinea Conakry they made us to wash our hands with fertilizer and asked for the vaccination booklets.

Nothing special, they didn't even stop us.

Nice and hidden spot for overnighting. View between bamboo bushes facing west to the valley.

In most of the maps there is a ferry marked at this point but there was already a brand new bridge for us.

The road is almost everywhere brand new, there is a short 30 km piste (also in good conditions) east from this location.

As the roads were not so easy to drive we decided to park our bus in Kaala village and explore the waterfall from there. The road is accessible by any car but not really big rig friendly, we had to cross a broken bridge which is not more that 2,25 m wide.

In a 45 minute walk among lianes and over creeks under 100 meter high cliffs you arrive to this stunning viewpoint. From here we just followed some animal tracks down to the river and on the other side of the river there is the path coming from Dittin and goes to the pool of the waterfall.
It all took us 4 hours total.

In the village some drunk people wanted money from us and started to argue. After a while the whole village was there and they found it also ridiculous so we moved our bus a little bit further on the road and the dunk people thought we have left. Everyone else was really welcoming.

We had a room for 30 000 GNF with aircon - apparently this was the only available one to book - but they also have rooms for 15 000. Including breakfast: (and sometimes lunch) Nescafé, tea, bread and margarine.

The rooms are extremely puritan and run down, but it's a safe secured and shady parking place to survive the city.

Reliable nice guy. We got a really good exchange rate: 1 Euro = 10 500 GNF

Pretty hotel with chalets and chambers, shady garden with outdoor rest areas, but expensive: first they offered us shower and toilet for 30 000 GNF per person. We ended up 15 000 for the four of us but we could only use the outdoor squat toilet where we could shower from a bucket.

Potable water and electricity is only available at certain times of the day and the electricity fluctuates in the whole village.

Easy to park in through the back gate even for our 12 m long bus.

Although it officially opens in February 2019 we could park in their garden and use the shower of one of the hut's.

It's in a really good location a bit out of the busy town and 3 km from one of the cascades. There is a Boulangerie and a bar across.

Hidden quite road with turning possibly at the end by the Bandama River between banana plants and someone's tomato garden. We sleep here on our way to Man.

Completely hidden from the road where we had our own private beach. Bars and restaurants along the street.

About 3km to west there is a village by the lagoon with friendly, welcoming locals. Definitely worth a visit.

80 km before Manankoro and 80 km after the border it is and extremely difficult piste with enormous wholes and steep sections. For our bus it meant walking speed, 4x4 drive probably 30 km/h

We must have had the same guy behind the desk because he was joking around all the time. Really helpful staff but it was quite busy (probably because of the holidays) so we got our visa in 2 days.

It costs 50 000 CFA for single entry visa.
We needed a copy of the passports, and a copy of the Ivory Coast visa, and the copy of the yellow fever booklet.

We parked in front of the hotel and we could use it's beach and facilities in charge of getting a drink in the bar. The owner loves overlanding himself and he was really friendly and welcoming.

A little bit run down camping with idyllic beach.
They had shortage of water and no electricity.
10 000 CFA per night per vehicle

The cascade pool was officially closed for renovation what we didn't mind, just walked further as is was shown on maps.me. After a couple of hundred meters we found a path on the right and we arrived to the top of the cascade. It is possible to climb down on the right side of the river - not too difficult but not just a walking path either.

The pool is a concrete constitution with pathways and terraces with the view to the cascade. There is also a bar and toilet. For going into the water I'd recommend the other cascade, but this one also worth a visit.

Although it's marked as a highway due to industrial traffic it became a piste with enormous wholes.

For our bus it was only possible in walking spend and other cars we not going faster then 25 km/h.

We even turned around and choose an alternative route to Abidjan through Yabayo and Gagnoa. Here the quality was good.

After reading all these comments we decided to take a guide - and he happens to be the same Augustine, who was really friendly and told us a lot of interesting facts. He was not cheap, 20 000 for the group of 8 and we had to pay contribution to the village for keeping the pathways clean: 2000 per person for the La Dent and 1000 for the cascade.

All together it's a really nice hike (about 17 km in 5 -6 hours) ending at the waterfall where you can cool down. The locals were friendly to us - probably thanks to Augustine.

On the Ivorian side they don't have proper customs or Duane. You get stamped in your passport after multiple check points in about 15 km. Everyone was really chilled and surprised that we drove that difficult road.

Organizing carnet de passage or vignette touristic is possible in Man.

Aroune was our guide to Iwol village and he offers some food and drinks. There is even possible to sleep in his basic hut.