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Arica Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arica, Chile
Back to Arica
... Arica. Picked up the documents from the airport and went straight to the border with Peru, after about 2 hours got thru the Chile border then headed a kilometre down the road to Peru's crossing. Another 2 hours I finally got thru with the bike into Peru ...
enfin a arica
je suis enfin arrivee a Arica, tout au nord du chili. je viens de parcourir 2060 jiloñetres en autobus et je suis crevee lol le bus etait genial, super confortable, avec des sieges moelleux et bien inclinables, on avait des repas dans le prix. un bus de ...
Possibly the dullest place on earth
... were soon travelling north and due to bus schedules and some late planning on our part we scheduled to stay 2 nights in Arica, the most northerly town in Chile and a base from which to cross the border. This was going to be our first taste of a real ...
Arica
... to his morning lesson :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apres ce séjour inoubliable a San Pedro, nous sommes arrives à Arica, à l'extrême nord de la côte Chilienne à côté de la frontière ...
Arica, just across the border
... we were so recked we didnt really care. Dont know how they got through the border controls in such a state though. We arrived in Arica bout 11 as chile is an hour ahead of Peru, and all either of us wanted to do was get something to eat and go to sleep. ...
No more rain!
... overnight bus ride sucked. After 18 hours on a bus, I spent another 2 hours crossing the border and riding in a taxi to Arica, Chile. When I finally made it to my hostel, I was extremely tired and disoriented, especially because, for some reason, Chile ...
Coastal wildlife
... . I had already seen lots of seabirds and crabs and I wondered what other wildlife I might find once I left the city. If you look at Arica, Chile on a map, you can see that there are no other cities along the coast in Chile for many miles. I figured, if I ...
My kind of town
... about Arica is that it located right along the Pacific Ocean. The town is quiet, clean, and the locals are welcoming. While in Arica I spend two days walking around Plaza Colon, seeing Casa de la Cultura, making the climb to El Morro and heading to ...
Arica - just short of Peru
... a taxi up to the top of El Morro where there are tremendous views and a small Museum about the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru in the late 19th century. El Morro is a hill which provided a strong defensive position for the Peruvians but ...
Welcome to Arica !
... find as there were many local peruvians and bolivians heading the same direction as I was, I just followed the flock. At a glance Arica seemed to be bustling with people, and shops still trading at this early hour. It was strange, but nevertheless, it ...
Crossing borders again
Saturday 10 nov Oruro ( Bolivia ). To. Arica ( Chile ). Trip. 535 KM. Total. 8467 KM The first 130 km was backtracking on our route from wednesday. In Patacamaya we made a left turn , direction Chile. Approx 80 km before the border we ...
Restday
Subday 11 nov. Restday What should have been a restday ended up to be a bad day. Saturday evening, whil we have dinner in the hotel , our room was broken into. Our room was on the seaside at groundlevel and had a terrace. The lock chain, to ...
Border Crossing and Long Ride South
This bit of the journey was BUS-TASTIC.....The bus is king here! Just a long time to be sitting on a bus....with a break in between countries when we took a taxi across the border or frontier as the locals call ...
Day off in Arica
We took a day off and got some laundry done. We're still not right, digestively. I have no appetite but Al really fancied some Chinese food. As soon as the food arrived I was hungry, but after eating I felt as though I was carrying a rugby ball in my ...
round 3.....wooohoooo
arrived in arica after an exhausting around 18 hours of traveling...trying to stay alive and feed myself. i am also staying at arica surf house where it appears i am the only girl in a big dorm room of male surf bums from across the world..heehee, good ...
Soldiers vs. Vultures
... the militares Valeria and I returned a couple of weeks later for a karaoke night. For some terrible reason, here in Chile karaeoke is the new black. Maybe it's just Arica but I doubt it. Go to any bar and the likelihood is that they'll put on at least ...
Day 16 San Pedro de Atacama to Arica 775 km
... stopped for lunch and feasted on white rolls, really good palm hearts and avocado and some cremated chicken. Ever since we arrived in Chile there has been a police presence on every road junction where we have all been checked off on a list to make sure ...
'Sarah's Famous!!!'
... hostel with our new friends as it was time for Sarah’s photo shoot!! Roberto had been discussing with 'Estrella De Arica’ (a newspaper) about doing a story on his hostel and travellers that pass by. A photographer came round at 11am saw Sarah ...
Arica, starting point for 2000km of Chilean hwy
... currently dispute where the territorial limits are offshore. Peru argues that the limit should be determined by bisection of the angle of the coastlines, while Chile argues that the limit should parallel the equator and head directly ...
Next Stop Peru
I left San Pedro two days ago, and have got to Arica, northern Chile, near the border with Peru. Last night I spent in Iquique, a coastal town wedged between the mountains to the east and the sea to the west. I took the coast road again which ...
Arrivee a Arica, Chili
... les papiers de Zayda, nous voila, apres avoir ete bien fouilles a la frontiere, au Chili. Ici plus de c, plus de fumette, mais du bon vin... Nous arrivons a Arica et nous installons a l'hotel... Puis restau pour manger de la viande, de la vraie, ...
Ribenfors you would love it here!
Found ourselves at the border town of Arica amongst some pretty die hard surfers. Love the hostel though. Very chilled out, massive living areas, loads of surfboard, kite boards, bodyboards lying about the place. Not much else to Arica so have been lying ...
Cuzco to Colca Canyon
... day headed back into Chile. Got to the border crossing and the bike was losing water from the water pump so I limped into Arica for repairs. 5th Jan waiting for water pump kit to be flown up from Orsono with thanks to Sonia from motoadventura and with ...
Learning to surf, hanging with locals
Will post pics later... Today I woke up and started my surf lessons with some really laid back Chilean dudes. Surfing is really hard! It took me many tries before I could stand up on my own. I wiped out A LOT! I never really hurt myself too bad ...
Blink and you'll miss it
... and not Peruvian passport) it was quite speedy. The colectivo dropped us off at the bus terminal and we made our way to the hostel. Arica Surf is a nice little hostel, a 10 minute walk from the centro. It was too late to eat from the many menus around the ...
Chilean ice cream! Finally!
... with grass! And we met her host sister and TINY little dog Lily, who was just too cute to handle, and we then walked to the Arica Casino! This was actually my first time ever in a casino, it was exactly what you imagine it would be like. We only went to ...
Atacama Desert
Tuesday, 19th Jan. 2010 ARICA ("Open Door"), Chile The ship arrived in the beach town of Arica just 11 miles inside the Chilean border around 7am. Arica used to be a Peruvian port before the War of the Pacific. Notably, it was the port used by the ...
Sand Dunes and Sea Lions
... some super-tasty seafood, I headed back to my hostel before heading out for beers with a German guy I’d bumped into 3 times already in Chile, and who was heading off into Peru the next day. Tired and merry I got to bed to try and get a good ...