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Museum of meteorite, located in the center of San Pedro.
Scientific and technical explainations. Not suitable for young children but you can touch meteorites by yourselves.

Unfortunately we couldn’t stay there. There was a very friendly guy who told us it’s only possible to stay after 15 December 2019. Before that it’s only open for scouts. Everything we saw there looked just awesome. The beach is also awesome but during the days we were here very very windy.

Standard Michi no eki
but you can go to the onsen, very nice famely baths with tatami room for 1550yen one hour or normal bath 320yen. There is also a tatami relaxing/eating area some vending machines massages chairs and the michi no eki food. All together a nice stop on tour!

Little cafe , very nice service. Meat dumplings are very good! Veggie also available

This hotel is such a lovely place to stay! It’s a bit old but the staff are beautiful! They will take excellent care of you.

We paid 100yuan for 1 night 2 people. We may have had a discounted rate because the electricity was off until 7pm. This was an issue throughout the entire town when we stayed.

The beds are comfy.

Good place for a night. Busy because it's black Friday evening😂

Wow! We had an amazing 2.5 hours visit with a great paleontologist! We sent an email a couple of days in advance to [email protected] to make sure that someone would be available to give us a tour. You actually don't need to do it as tours run every day at 10 am and 3 pm.
The cost is 600 AR pp and it's used to finance the site and the researches as the site is 100% privately funded.
We discovered so much about dinosaurs!
The tour is in Spanish only but they have introduction videos in French and English and the guys do their best to make sure you understand.
Highly recommended :)

New departure time from Puerto Ibáñez:
Mon: 19:00
Tue: 10:30
Wed: 10:00 and 19:00
Thu: 20:00
Fri: 20:00
Sat: 12:00
Sun: 19:00

Same prices. Ticket corner opens 3 hours before departure.

Based on a number of comments I was expecting a teeth rattling ride, but it was absolutely fine. No washboard whatsoever, and cruised leisurely asking at 60-70km. Some areas of looser gravel, and sand but I just slowed a bit. Maybe they skim the surface periodically and I got lucky. Lagoons are awesome.

Rocks on the road, passable but go slow...........

The Girl next door told us its closed and not here anymore...

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good place for Nights. Pemex, gas station. 50$ peso for parking

After visiting the caves we asked the guard if we can stay and he agreed.
We have parked infront of the guards locatin.

Very nice guy, very quiet

Very cool and modern Hostel. Best vibe in town and soooo close to the beach. The owner Alfonso is great and will gladly help you with whatever as a friend. You can store your vehicles here for a very fair price. If you need a mechanic ask Alfonso for Christian Lopez contact (the best mechanic I had in over a year driving SA). Check In - Be Home! ✌🏻

Quit and wind shadow- if you came from the park on the right side you can drive down- you don’t need to stay next to the road. Good place for a night.

Every vehicle need to reduce the speed, they checked each second- we had luck. Very friendly smiling officer.

This place will save you if you have made the kook error of thinking the green Coleman Gas bottles are cheap and readily available South of the US. It’s pretty bootleg, but they can fashion you an adapter so your stove will connect to a refillable bigger gas bottle.

Professional "LG" machinery, professional help! Washing 20, drying 15 AED/machine.

We had a good night here but only from about 1 PM because before many cars driving back and forth and lougher, people talking and loud music in mid-week. Otherwise O.K. - You only see the sea if you have a high truck or if you climb on the breakwater

Camped one night here. Relatively calm at night. Fiew Early morning you wake up by some roosters. Few cars passing by.

the process mentioned is still the same.

went back 4 days later and it was ready.

Nice place to stay, we were 3 nights at this place. In the morning and at the daytime there is many traffic about this Bazaar but at the night is very silence.
When you will drive early in the morning it is no problem but at the daytime could be a little bit difficult to parking. Cars park around you. Look at the picture. 😊

We did follow our GPS (rush hour, in the dark) and ended up on the steep road. It can be done with an overweight Land Cruiser 100 (low gear engaged). I've tested two 'via' waypoints to avoid this and added them to the initial description above. The campground is at quite an altitude: while the city can be hot, the climate here is always on the cool side.

The campground is OK and pretty quiet (considering you're close to a city: traffic audible). Spots a little close to each other. Facilities as described by others.

We were in the area for vehicle maintenance and spent 5 enjoyable nights on this campground waiting for mechanics and parts (and 2 hotel nights in Medellin, close to the shop). This is a good place to meet other overlanders and exchange tips.

Paid 17,000 COP per person per night.

R450 pp for a 2.5 hours ride.
We had an excellent time. You start going through the bush, then go over the dunes and finish with lots of galloping on the beach.. you do about 15km all together.
Have beginner, intermediate and advanced horses, dependent on your experience.
They have over 50 horses and they are all looked after really well.
Highly recommend this place. Rides are at 10am and 3pm.
Need to book a day in advance.
+27 820072381

One of the worst border crossing of my traveling career. From Iraqi Kurdistan to Irani Kurdistan. On Iraqi side process went quite smoothly, customs did their work thoroughly but efficient. The Iranian side was a different story. First the customs let me wait for 2 hours because it was raining and didn't want to check my car in the rain. Then I had to unpack everything to go trough x-ray, and with everything I mean literally everything, all the lose items in the car, the contents of my roof case, the refrigerator, everything. When going trough the x-ray, while I was loading everything in the machine, they let everything drop on the floor at the other end of the machine. They didn't warn me about the things dropping on the floor and my belongings were over the floor. In the meantime the were having a laugh at me. After packing everything back in the car I had to pay € 44 road taxes but the bank was already closed by then so I had to leave the car at the border, and get back the next morning to finish that process, which also took going back and forth to different desks. I In the end the whole process took about 15 hours

This is the house owned by nephew (Enrique?) and the guides call it a museum, which is a big word for mostly low resolution enlargements of photographs. The wet bike (which Pablo had to have after seeing 'The Spy Who Loved Me') is nice.

Guides William and Jairo take you through the life of Pablo in an entertaining way. They tell anecdotes and try their very best to paint a positive picture of this drug lord by stressing that he 'gave back' to the people and explaining about his extravaganzas.

With that, they go against council policies. The municipality destroyed the 8 story marble clad house of Pablo (in Feb 2019) and they seem to want to get rid of his legacy altogether. This tour shows the opposite side.

Optionally, the tour guides will take you to the site of the destroyed house and to the family's grave (in the nephew's bullet proof Toyota Corolla).

We paid a whopping 150,000 COP per person for the full tour (without the 'house and graveyard drive', it's 90,000 COP). I was disappointed that the guide had the heart to ask for a tip.

We did not like the place at all... Very noisy during the night (load music until 1.30 am, dogs barking all night), and extremely dirty toilets (feces on the walls). During the day, many people are just wandering around the campsite (it's open to the public).

Nice pull out on hard surface. From here to Salar Pasto camp the road was 95% great, 60kph cruising, but we did run into some sandy bits which required maintaining momentum to keep from getting stuck. We have a 2WD.

Guarded parking place Right in the midle of Jolfa. The gate close at 24:00. The guard sleep in place. The guy want me to pay 500.000 Rials