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Tacna Slideshow
Tacna
Travel Blogs from Tacna, Peru
the border is an imaginary line, isn't it?
This is a top pick! ... Tacna and then its time to cross the border in to Chile. The way it works is you hire a car to drive you between Tacna, Peru and Arica, Chile. But I feel like I'm traveling with Cheech and Chong in this low slung vehicle with the stick on the ...
A canyon, a condor, a convent
This is a top pick! ... down to the beautiful Plaza de Armas and on to the Museum Santuarios Andinos. Arequipa is the commercial capital of southern Peru, but despite its size it´s a charming place in a stunning setting. Fine colonial buildings built of sillar, a light ...
Bus journey hell
... by one of the guys from the coach company who took us over the border, the idea being we would then get on a Coach from Tacna in Peru to Cusco. Unfortunately the company had not booked the coach for us and we find out when we get there that we will ...
Tacna- Boarder Town
Tacna is just a small, dusty boarder town without much to do. I arrived in the afternoon, bought my train ticket for the next day (for Chile!), had dinner and went to bed..... missing Devin of ...
Peru
... . Poliisit voi tehdä mitä vaan, eikä heihin ole luottamista, sama juttu kaikissa etelä-amerikan maissa, mutta Peru on pahimmasta päästä. Yhdessä kontrollissa oli henkilöauto pysäytetty, ja poliisit ja auton matkustajat tappelivat kadulla, ...
Lake Titicaca.. Isla del Sol and more..
... ; Lots of sheep and little kids passed us out on the way. We caught a more pleasant boat back to Copacabana and spent one more night there. We watch the rugby in another quirky bar in town.... best we don´t talk about the game. Next stop ...
Crossing the Border
I had to cross the border to Chile because my 3-month tourist visa was up on December 6. I flew from Arequipa to Tacna, and took a taxi to Arica, Chile. I stayed there for a few days, came back and spent a day and night in Tacna and then back to ...
Arequipa to tacna to arica, to San Pedro
So i left arequipa to go to tacna to then cross to arica...in chile...and to catch a bus to San pedro de atacama at 10....ill get there at 9 ...
Hola Peru
On arrival at the bus station in the beautiful city of Tacna we were escorted by our driver to a bus company office in a very dodgy looking bus station. After a bit of confusion us and the Japanese girl were put on the 8.30am bus to Arequipa and ...
Back in Peru
... we were still in the country. So it took about 4 hours for the Peruvian officials to get everything in order. Peru's government officials do everything by the book. Im not complaining, its just that it takes a long long time for them ...
32 hrs of travelling pt2
Another breif entry. 2 hours of boarder crossing. We meet three people on the last bus, Penelope, Henus and Ben. The five of us crammed into a taxi and went through the rigmarole of a boarder crossing. The taxi dropped us off in the next town, Tacna. ...
Waiting at the border
By the time I arrived at Tacna, it was too late to cross the border so I was left to spend the night there. The hostal/hotel I originally chose from the quidebook was full so I walked to another. It was what I would consider a dive but I ...
Through the desert
Rallying thourgh the desert in our double decker bus - not quite the Paris Dakar but we're getting there. In the bus watching films, reading, eating and also surfing the web. Got Wifi access and you can use an onboard comptuer if you dont have a ...
Small Town
... Small town and a stop over to Cuzco. No hot water in the shower... not funny. Start of a 17 hour bus journey from Tacna - Arequipa - Cuzco. The bus was much better and it was an experience to watch happy gilmore in Spanish very entertaining. We ...
Eiffel Fountain!
We did not originally plan on spending any time in Tacna but when we got here after two overnight buses in a row we decided to check into somewhere for the night. Also some random American in an internet cafe told us it takes about 4 hours to get ...
Boulot
Me voici dans un nouveau pays. Sur un nouveau continent. Dans une langue que je ne connais pas. Heureusement le language des mains est universel. Here I am, in a new country. In a new continent. In a language I don't know. Fortunately the hand ...
Getting to Peru
... to Puno. We made it down to the Plaza de Armas, which was actually quite beautiful and modern. Also notable in Tacna were the very interesting hillside carvings recognizing the different divisions of the military. The reason the bus was very strange was ...
Copacabana and Isla del Sol
... into Bolivia so we actually got some sleep then, got through the border formalities (including the 5 minute walk from Peru emigration to Boliva immigration) all very smoothly and arrived in Copacabana merrily humming away to Barry Manilow. We arrived ...
retour au perou
fin de notre long sejour au bord de locean pacifique nous regagnons notre pays prefere: le perou... de4main on prend lavion jusqua lima et ensuite ns arriverons a huaras une belle ville au coeur de la cordillere ...
Yet another border crossing..
crossing borders...always a treat. And when crossing borders it is always relevent to know what the country you are arriving from produces and what the country you are entering doesn't want to admit into its borders. In this case, crossing into Chile ...
The Little Engine That Could
... in the process). A long time after those event, in 1929, Chile finally gave back a little part of this region to Peru, including the city of Tacna, only 50km north of Arica. So close, it would have been dumb not going there... And then as I was gathering ...
CHAPTER 4: COPIAPO...JUST SAY NO!
... message number 2 - forget that Porsche or Aston Martin you have been hankering for, save money by importing a Chevrolet Matiz from Tacna Peru. Two beers with lunch is in order given the gravity of the situation. Tacna is a pleasant enough town, ...
ONE GRAND MARQUIS TO CHILE PLEASE
... a collectivo (group taxi) to take you. It's about an hour long trip. They stopped taking people at 10pm - so we stayed in Tacna for the night. We did have to check out a couple hostels before making our decision as the first one did not seem very safe. ...
the ´other´ arch
I learned early in my SA adventure that STL has a ´sister city´ with an arch in Tacna, Peru. Early on, I thought I might have time to swing through and take a pic of said arch. I got what I wished for...the taxi was late leaving Arica ...
Friendly Peru (and little yellow bugs!)
Tacna In a dip between the high sandy hills lies Tacna, dare I say, gateway to Peru? Relatively small and my first experience of the friendly Peruvian people; it boasts two rather large statues of Generals and a small rotunda along the ...
A decision to move on or back?
... will remain in my memory for ever, almost surreal. I took a collective taxi from Acrica international bus station to Tacna in Peru, quite an achievement seeing that my Spanish is admittedly only marginally better than my Cleon. For just three pounds the ...
Tacna, a town that I like.
... ahead of Chile I was up early so had a chance to plan my day, not a thing I normally do but it turned out very well. Tacna is not a large town, it sits between two huge sand dunes some few Kms inland from the Pacific and it´s claim to fame was a ...
Back to Aguas Caliente
Around 2:00PM, we started to head back to Aguas Calientes which turned out to be a good choice because it gets cloudy in the afternoon, then it starts to rain. We walked around the city to take some shots and just enjoyed a coffee while waiting for ...
The last of Peru
I only stopped here for about 3 hours. I was planning on taking the train across the boarder to Arica in Chile but when the station finally opened, I had arrived at 7am and the station didn't open until 8.30, to find out the train didn´t even ...