Americano Hotel Arica
General Lagos 571 Arica, -, Chile
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This bus is stuck!
We spent an uneventful two days back in El Calafate relaxing, enjoying the hot running water, provisioning and fattening ourselves up for our next test of endurance- 9 days of trekking in Torres del Paine. We stayed at the America del Sur hostel which had spacious rooms, private full baths and a beautiful view of the mountains. Finding a …
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Surf's up!
... I had had very little sleep on the overnight bus and was just desperate for a bed to sleep in. We made are ourselves comfortable on the steps outside and waited for some signs of life. Luckily it wasn’t too long before someone from the hostel came to open up. They let us in and we checked in but said the room wasn’t ready so we made a dash for the sofa and both Sam and I fell straight to sleep. We were woken up by the guy who let us know our room was ready. I ...
Is This Cooked?
... to transport Alpacas back to New Zealand. He told us all kinds of stories about fighting with country officials about regulations, rounding up animals in the mountains and his interactions with the flying cowboys (a group of mostly Americans who who take care of animals being transported by air).
During our stay in Arica we purchased lots of fish from the local fish market. Our first time at ...
Not pleased
Was gonna spend a few days down here but it is phobitively expensive. Already double my budget. Maybe it was just the people I interacted with, but really rude and short. Latins in general aren't known for their manners, I think that of most everybody though. I have high standards. I hopped a bus the next day for Bolivia. By far the friendliest of S. ...
Chilly in Chile (and stuck).
... we had a delicious lunch and a nice chat with them.
When we arrived back in Chile we were properly excited to be back in a country that seemed so much more civilised and ordered than where we had been. We were shocked to see cars patiently waiting for us to cross the road in front of them, no beeping of horns or road rage, a fabulous vegetable market where the produce was even better and cheaper than in Bolivia (maybe 'cos we got ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Americano



