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Arica Slideshow
Top Hotels in Arica
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Panamericana Hotel Arica
43 reviews -
El Paso Arica
24 reviews
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Americano Hotel Arica
2 reviews -
Azapa Inn Hotel & Convention Center Arica
2 reviews
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Hostal Colonial Arica
10 reviews
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Hotel Del Valle Azapa Arica
20 reviews -
Hotel Savona Arica
14 reviews
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Hotel Volapuk Express Arica
1 review
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Hotel Bahia Chinchorro Arica
7 reviews
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Hotel Plaza Colon Arica
8 reviews
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Hi Casa De Huespedes Arica
3 reviews -
Hotel San Remo Arica
Arica
Travel Blogs from Arica, Chile
it's HOT in CHILE !!
This is a top pick! ... on the street, even if a stranger... they usually kiss you on the cheek goodbye. Skin color is lighter in Chile...theoretically there are fewer indigenous people and much more of a Spanish influence genetically. Chilenos are well dressed, ...
Eureka, we´ve reached Arica!
This is a top pick! ... from one side to the other, perhaps every 10 yards or so, which went on for mile after mile. This surprised us for Chile is a prosperous country in South America; but of course this is earthquake country. You might have heard about the earthquake of 13th ...
Desert Sky, Dreamed I Saw A Desert Sky....
This is a top pick! ... in Chile Find a cheap hostel - a bit of a dive, but couldnt be bothered to look elsewhere, and then wandered Arica. Surrounded by desert mountains, totally without vegetation, and the place seems a bit darker, more, and more aggressive beggars than ...
Bus life Part 2
This is a top pick! ... Found a collective taxi to drive us the 20 km to immigrations at the border and a further 20 km to the nearest Chile town of Arica. Spending the day looking around Arica before junping on another 12 hour bus to Calama in Chile to catch another 15 ...
Edge of the Altiplano
This is a top pick! We take a flight up to Arica with LAN Chile, on the way briefly stopping at Iquique to pick up and drop off passengers. The plane flies along an arid coastline of interminable brownness bathed in hot Autumn sunshine. A never-ending steep escarpment seems ...
Class 3: Take 3
This is a top pick! ... cross the border into Peru. Please can you send us a postcard? Yes, we will send you a postcard from where we are now in Arica, Chile. Postcards can take quite a long time to arrive from Chile to the UK. When you come back can you come and show ...
low impact living???
This is a top pick! ... feelings...the nastiness in the water is disappointing and in contrast to their beauty. I am surprised that in a place like Chile, and in a vacation seafront town, there wouldn't be more of an effort to take care of the trash. Got to ...
Long journeys, short tempers!
This is a top pick! ... the desert. After swiftly collecting our packs we took a taxi to the bus terminal to claim some transport across the border to Arica, Chile. As we pulled up, local hombres ran to open the taxi doors and usher us to ticket offices within the building. ...
On the Road Again
This is a top pick! ... the Atacama Desert, and as we plan our route we find that we are actually starting to get a little excited about exploring Chile - this 4,300 km long string bean of a country nestled between the snow-capped Andes and the Pacific Ocean. Finally, ...
Over the Andes and Back to Chile
This is a top pick! ... the changing scenery as we wound our way down down down finalling arriving at sea level! -at the Chilean seaside town of Arica. ... and when looking at these amazing photos remember they were all taken out of a moving bus!!!. Imagine the shots that could ...
Getting out of Chile.
This is a top pick! ... . The we turned the corner to see a huge coca cola sign etched into the side of the rock and I knew we were nearly in Arica. 29 hours after we left Santiago and about 2000km later we had arrived and what did we do...booked another long distance bus ...
Hotel Diego de Almagro - too good to leave
This is a top pick! ... least it sorted out our fuel problem. We gained altitude again through more and more spectacular scenery and approached the border of Chile and Bolivia at about 4,000 meters. It was most unnerving. We were all puffing and walking very slowly, sucking in ...
Following Synchronicities - Hare Krishna Ashram
This is a top pick! ... and my spirituality, after a few weeks of celebration in Argentina. While leaving the Andes Mountains behind going to Arica on the pacific coast, I saw a very rare sight: a vegetarian restaurant announcing its colors in this heavy meat ...
Arica, Arica
This is a top pick! Now I'm in Arica, at the very northern end of Chile and I've found an Internet place where I can upload some photos so here's some more on San Pedro and Bolivia. First of all, a last photo of Easter Island, taken at sunset on my last night ...
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...
This is a top pick! ... (some active and smoking away!), we arrived at the highlight of the day...the emerald coloured Chungara lake (according to Chile this is the highest navigable lake in the world and not Lake Titicaca!!!!) and it was beautiful and unbelievably serene! Lots ...
Océano Pacífico, Te quiero
This is a top pick! ... as the change from sub-zero temperature to 40 degrees heat during a 4000 meters descend was beyond comprehension. We arrived in Arica, Chile in mid afternoon. In pouring sweat and toiling our backpacks we didn't wish to walk around to look for a ...
Beach, Siesta, Internet, n' Shopping Malls
This is a top pick! Although the city of Arica is closer to Peru and Bolivia than the capital city of Santiago de Chile, it is unquestionably more modern than any city we have came upon. The streets were well paved and broad, cars followed traffic rules, the red roofed ...
Repos! / Rest!
... cathédrale a une histoire particulière: originellement destinée à la petite station balnéaire de Ancón, elle fut envoyée d'urgence à Arica après qu'un tremblement de terre en 1868 détruise toutes les églises de la ville! :) Ce qui est vraiment ...
first taste of Chile
From Arequia we crossed the border into Chile- pretty easy as far as border crossing is concerned. We headed to Arica- the most northern town in Chile- A dry, desert town on the coast. With Sean in a lot of pain the first thing we did the night we ...
Beach bumming in Arica.
... passport up to a bus boy so that the Chilean police can check it even though you do not cross any borders... Arica is the most Northerly town in Chile, smack bang on the border into Peru and Bolivia. The population is around 200,000 and the City lies on ...
vamos a la playa
premier hotel complet et je tombe ensuite sur un truc sympa enfin en tout cas le gars est sympa car sinon cets un peu crados et le bordel ds sa maison je commence a fre une sieste... et ensuite direction la playa... je me trve un ptit resto avec vue sur ...
DISASTER OF A BUS JOURNEY!!!!
... We Arrived in Calama happy to have a 2 hour break before the next journey yet this was not the case. First we realised that in Chile they were a further hour behind so it turned our 2 hour delay into 3 hours. This was not a major shock as we were ...
El Norte Grande
... a while down south and were now faced with the prospect of many many hours on buses crossing the apparently mediocre middle section of Chile (well, we didn’t have time to see it so we will just assume this is so) or, abandoning our plans to ...
A night in the tent
Today was to be yet another long drawn out day on the roads of Chile. As usual I and the Grandad team left well before the rest of the group simply to let them get ahead and to allow me to stop and take my usual amount of photos along the way. At first ...
30 hours later...
Seriously did you really think we would get on a bus for 50 hours? Arriving in on the bus into Arica we thought we´d made the wrong choice as this town looked like a dudust-bowlfrom a western movie! But underneath all that sand and dust ...
Last Stop on the Chile Bus
The last stop in Chile was only 25km from the Peruvian border. Arica is a cute little beach town surrounded by sand dunes and provided us lots of sun and relaxation – quite the treat from a couple travelers leaving the Patagonian cold and headed ...
Stunning North Chile: Lauca and Salar de Surire
... years old!) After picking up 2 others for the tour, we had lunch in a very cute restaurant in a valley at drains into Arica. Dry all around except for the valley floor, which was a lush green. We passed various geoglyphics that were apparently over 2000 ...
Arica
... a bbq they were hosting at their farm that evening to watch the final of their equivalent of Champions League football.. Universad de Chile was playing a Brazilian club, we had seen the semi-final match with Nino, Yuri and friends a few months ago back ...