Check-Ins

Pascale wasn't there, but the manager welcomed me in. Park for about 2-3 vehicles depending on size.

Loved the vibe here. I was the only one. They usually have trucks of tourists come on Monday, for a tour on the river on Tuesday. Still R150pppn. Half day river tour R400pp.

Douches toujours accessibles, et très propres ! Eau chaude et shampoing ! Pour préciser le lieu exact, quand on entre dans la marina depuis la rue, il faut descendre les escaliers au niveau des bateaux, et aller vers la gauche jusqu’à un petit bâtiment marron. Les douches hommes / femmes se trouvent derrière ce petit bâtiment. Des agents de sécurité sont présents sur le site pour renseigner les plaisanciers, pas pour traquer ceux qui viennent se doucher.

fine place to be at night, no problem. Plenty of water also.

Cheap but new and very clean hotel just outside the center with free secured parking. Breakfast is possible at the hotel.

This place is permanently closed.

One time issue. No longer relevant.

This place is permanently closed.

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A little bit outdated, but really beautiful, regardless.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!