Arica Hostels - Reviews and Rates

We arrived from San Pedro De Atacama, Chile to Arica, Chile at 6am by overnight ´´Turbus´´ which was a pretty uncomfortable trip as they had no fresh air available and had the heating on the whole trip! We werent sure if the hostel would be open but had nothing better to do so we caught a cab there and Kurt the manager let us in which was great....

From Arequipa, I caught the bus to Tacna and then a colectivo over the border into Chile - another old Chevy from the 1950s with a collection of random Peruvian fellow passangers!

Drove to Arica, a small surfy beach town not far from the border. Here I spent the last week doing eff all except sit on the beach topping up my tan - after wee...

On route to Arica I spent 2 days in another coastal city called Iquique. Having been touring insecently for a couple of weeks I decided to have a couple of days doing nothing, the hostal I stayed in was just 100m from the beach and it was very homely. They even had the coolest little puppy and his dad as guard dogs, in fact I spent most of my ti...

So we had decided to pay a bit of extra money to get the good section of the bus, with less people. But when we arrived they told us that it was a different bus and we would be seated up stairs in the busier section. We had to argue with them to get a refund on the extra money we paid to be upgraded. They finally agreed to return us the money. S...

I made it to arica chile. there is supposed to be surfing here but i havent seen any. unfortunately the beaches are too far away to walk and need to take buses. i am staying in a ****** hotel because the hostel is full that i wanted. tomorrow i am going to go to iquique to see if that is better, but unfortunately the hostel i want there is full ...

La Paz was the same, chaotic. Buses, cars, people, kids, food, souvenirs, pollution just seems to blend into one. It is not my favorite city, but the view from the highway above the city is beautiful. La Paz, Bolivia is also the highest capital city in the world at close to 3600 meters above sea level. We stayed one day, and left the next mornin...

We rode for a solid 8 hours across a vast barren wasteland to arrive in Arica, Chile -- quite a beautiful town in the NW of Chile -- beautiful ocean views, dark sandy beaches -- a few days to relax until we head back up the coast to Quito. Its nice to be back at sea level. We are taking 20 hour bus tomorrow to Lima -- then the world. Almost time...

Getting to Arica ment the easiest boarder crossing I have ever witnessed! It was completly organised, get off the bus at Peru Imigration, get your bag scanned and passport checked, get on a bus to Chile Imigration, get your bag scanned again and your passport stamped, get on tyhe bus again, get off in Arica - as easy as that! When we arived I go...

Yesterday after Chelsea rounded the corner and disappeared to her bus for Lima, I wiped the tears out of my eyes and headed across the street to where the international bus terminal was. I wasn't much in the mood to deal with lots of people and kind of just wanted to get on my way down to southern Chile and they had the perfect solution. Filled ...

Well, today was a relatively uneventful day, which was good, because its really been nice relaxing a bit after being on the go for five or six days straight. However, we are leaving tonight at 230 in the morning for La Paz, and then for Cocacabana, since I told Mike Id hang out with him for a couple more days before I head down into the heart of...