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Staff at this entry gate were helpful and advised on the best route to take to Ghoha Gate.

Park fees (1 day; transit) are BWP 270 for foreigners; BWP 205 for South Africans & BWP 115 for a foreign registered vehicle. Kids up to 5 go free and up yo 12 years half price of the state rates. The permit is issued here, but fees are payable in cash at the Savuti Gate in the North. You need both the receipt and the permit to exit when you leave at the exit gate. The road conditions are for 4x4 with some areas of deep sand. Allow 5 hours to cross the park, including a few game viewing stops.

Please be careful with your dog in this place. My dog get poisoned and died here.

This place may exist, but the location specified is an open field. Google aerial photo shows a plowed field and a visit shows open field.

Very primitive campsites. No electricity or water at the sites. Basic braai & shade canopy. Solar lights at each site without on/off switch which comes on at dark. Pretty annoying if you are trying to look at stars or have darkness to sleep. We went to the waterhole bar for a sundowner at 6.15 but the place was locked up behind a steel gate, meaning we could not make use of the reason to come (watering hole & bar). Ablutions were good. Kids over 5 years pay full rates. Extremely overpriced and underwhelming. Keep driving...

ENTER PANAMA:
Currently Covid vaccination or test required. Make sure you have some document showing your onwards travel (e.g. a flight ticket or booking confirmation of a boat trip to Colombia).

1. In the middle of passing the big Panama building you can park, and go to the little window where the doctor is, fill in a form and show vaccination or test results.
2. Go to Seguros office on the other side behind the taxi stands to get insurance for the car. Ours cost 25 Dollars, cash only. Check for mistakes! Ours had a mistake in the VIN No. 2 times, even after I let them correct it the 1st time the 2nd one had a new mistake!
3. Go get your passport stamped (can also do this before insurance) where you parked and hand in the stamped document you got from the doctor. They'll ask about your onwards travel.
4. Go to the Aduana counters, show them the usual documents and the insurance. AGAIN check everything! Otherwise you will have problems at the port. We had 3! mistakes in our plate and VIN numbers of the TIP.
5. Find a customs officer who will search your car and stamp the TIP. They didn't ask or search for food/alcohol or similar items that sometimes are not allowed.
6. Pay for fumigation (6 USD)
7. Drive through fumigation, everything done.

Guard call (with our mobile phone) to the boss, named Gervasio. They came and asked 10000 kw. (20 €) for 2 People and our Hilux Camper. No discussion. We did not accept. We left.

20000 CFA double room, hot water, and AC. Pretty run down but reasonably clean.

Nice views of the river.

Restaurant not open - only bar

As of 5/19/22 this place is temporarily closed for repairs.

a nice spot. it's close to the road so there's noise but a tree buffer offers privacy from it. state trooper came through a time or two but must have just been doing paperwork or something, we weren't bothered.
didn't find trash cans but the pit toilets were in decent shape. moderate bug activity.
no river access anymore.
2 other RVs and 1 other car stayed the night also

They proposed me a single room for 60.000 $, I didn't stay.

Addendum to Erics Comment (driving up the volcano): We've been to the Ministerio in David. You cannot self drive up the volcano anymore, need to take a tour unfortunately.

Dump, Potable Water and showers available for a 10$ Day fee on weekdays and 20$ on weekends.
You can then of course also use the other facilities at the park.
There is a sign on the dump station saying it is not good to drink etc. but staff confirmed to me this is only because of the installed water hose...otherwise it would be ilegal to call it potable. Told me to remove the installed hose and use my own one and then it is fine, normal potable tap water comes out of the spigot.

The Sitooterie (EH21 8QG) is a private garden hosted by Gillian & Stuart. They have a lovely fenced in large grassy space beside their house with room for 8-10 Moho's. You'll see a wooden gate. Firepit, summerhouse with sofa's, crafts, dvd/book swap & kids toys/books. Compost loo, soak away for waste (eco friendly stuff must be used in your cassette) and fresh water tap. Half mile walk into Wallyford to the grocery store or about 2 miles to Tesco in Musselburgh. On bus route into Edinburgh at Princess St. £10 plus £5 if you want power. Seems only 3 spots marked for electric. Owners very helpful.

Small campground, first come first serve at $14 a night (attendant comes around to collect). Has a pit toilet, no garbage, excellent sites by the water. Seems likely that it gets busy during the summer.

this spot still works be careful of the tides don't want to get swept away no internet in this spot but other spots along this road have functional Verizon

We had a great few nights here with the kind and generous Andreas. He gave us a great tour of the farm, cocoa process, and the local school/dental project. The primitive experience was great and everything was as described. Note there are some low hanging wires on the road in, we managed to sneak through by pushing them up and out of the way, and the parking space is limited but enough for 2 vehicles and great for a stop over to learn something new!

Beautiful forest road with many boon-docking opportunities in dispersed sites along forest road 380 next to a pristine river. Pines, aspens, mountains, stars, clean air, blue skies, good road, no fires- a perfect place.

It is not possible anymore to pick up money here.

Perfect spot for one or two night.
No wind protection.

Bots to Nam
Easy and fast border crossing.
Especially on the Namibian side very friendly people.
They ran out of immigration forms, so they stamped our passports without the forms :)!
The very friendly customs guy explained to us, that we don't have to stamp our carnet between the customs union of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Since Botswana stamped us out, he stamped us in again :)!
Paid 337 NAM$ by VISA card!

Wifi at library works from outside in lot or on street out front.

Banheiro químico aberto, localizado ao lado de campo de futebol society, ao lado do terminal rodoviário. Fizemos o descarte de porta potti.

Have showers for 200 pesos per person, we told the guy to pay less and he accept.
Good wifi, nice space to sleep, we saw a tent pass thw night too.

Pizza, shawarma and burgers.

Cold Beers

Also open for breakfast: omelette, croissant, pain au chocolat, coffee

Not sure of the name but it is the red building next to the petrol station.

Beautiful spot. Very maintained and clean. Gorgeous lake view! Electric and water hook up and laundry. $60 a night out the door. Stayed for one night to recharge. I’ll head up the street and find some dry camping for the next few days.

Sandy narrow gravel road, not suitable for 2wd or big rig, no place to u-turn

This is not free. You have to enter the national park and pay 50 cordobas.

Small lay by next to a quiet road and a river not far from the town Not much traffic. Good 4G with Movistar.

very friendly attendant :)
$7 per shower room +$3 for an extra person - and there was a body towel, hand towel, and face towel already in the very very clean shower, so they may not charge for towels anymore. no time limit. it's clean enough that you don't feel the need to wear shower shoes.
grocery store, liquor store, auto parts store, potable water and gas station in the vicinity so it's a perfect resupply before heading out again.

Lodge & Camping. an area of ​​more than 5000 square meters for camping, with fruit trees, many birds and butterflies, service area, kitchen, bathrooms, campfire. with a beautiful mountain view full of nature, fresh air and lots of plants and trees…sometimes small monkeys and sloths are seen.