Given that even when you consider just the issue of "wild-camping" (yet to be legally defined) in fully self-contained motorhomes, there will be as many yes/no opinions as there are motorhome owners, so I suspect a topic like this is barely worth the expenditure of the electrons needed to post it. A very few countries have written law that specifically allow a particular pursuit and a similarly small number specifically disallow it. The majority either don't have national or even any laws, or like Australia, have several layers of government and land control and ownership - Federal, State and local government, freehold, leasehold, Aboriginal title - and within each of these, multiple layers each with different policies on such use and each with dramatically different responses to infractions, so that it just isn't possible to come up with an all-encompassing rule that is of any use to the traveller. Some like France have very specific laws relating to very specific sectors of the traveling public. For instance the official French Aires for Camping Cars are just for camping cars (motorhomes) and even cars and caravans (travel trailers) are not permitted, let alone rooftop tents or ground tents. Everyone else is expected to use official campgrounds. In Iceland, almost every square inch of land is privately owned and there are no road reserves as such so theoretically any camping activity requires permission, but we have wildcamped - meaning parked overnight in a motorhome - for around 60 nights all over with no issues.

All that often happens is each travellers personal opinion gets promoted as law on the basis that "I did it and got away with it so everyone else can too"

We have been moved on 4 times in 10 years of full-time motorhoming despite boondocking considerably more than 50% of nights - once in Morocco by corrupt police moonlighting for the local RV park owner, once by a fisheries officer in Montana because we were parked in a disused fishing reserve and a local reported us, and twice in Turkey by very pleasant and helpful security forces because they were worried about our safety along the eastern border.

For what it's worth - Spain has specific laws for motorhomes/campers or call them what you like. Get the lowdown from the 'experts' i.e. the traffic police here.

Regs

Simon

In Australia I use the WikiCamps App - so far it's been great for find the best free spots.

Some Aussie towns now have "commons" areas which allow free camping up to 2 or 3 nights and even have showers - usually these are full of "grey nomads" if free - other towns charge token amounts for commons grounds.

Aussie National Parks are all self paid, self declared systems, but rangers don't usually work after 3pm or before 8am - so if you arrive late and leave early nobody cares.

Nepal- Free camp permitted
 

you are allowed for free camping except in some restricted region.

South Korea
 

South Korea. One of the best things about Korea is that you are free to camp almost anywhere. When I'm looking for the best campsite in the country, our local guide from https://gowithguide.com/korea/seoul/guides recommended Chungju MokgyeSolbat to me. And yes, it is the best. But I think it's paid now.

South Korea and Japan
 

I agree with South Korea. Japan is also famous for free/cheap campsites.

My recent experience in japan is that paid camping is very very seasonal and not cheap in general.

You can free camp in a vehicle at roadside stations (Michi no Eki) and you can tent camp if you ask in rural areas.

You can free camp generally in rural parks as long as you are discreet (set up late and pack early). If you don’t speak Japanese make a small card up using translate app’s explaining what you want to do and show that to anyone nearby.

I have rarely had any issues doing this - the many older women can be a bit miserable at anyone doing something different.

I had a mate who woke up very early while sleeping in a tent in a park and saw a security guard sitting nearby. Couple hours later (6.30ish) he got up and the guard just said hello and that was that.

I spent some time once the borders reopened in October 22 and many Japanese were very wary of foreigners. It should return to normal though.

:)


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Thank you for sharing your experience. Respecting local regulations and being considerate of the environment and the people around you are essential to have a positive experience while camping in any country.