El Paso Park Hotel Arica

We stopped two nights in D´Marie-Jeanne and David which was great, met two Argentinian guys who had driven up to Macchu Picchu in their 70s mobile and had a fantastic lunch but we were heading out but decided to try to get insurance. It is compulsory in Chile but we had been unable to get any at the border. I had spotted an insurance place so we stopped there to see if we could insure the bike. <br><br>They couldn´t help ...

me voila tte fraiche, apres un bon dodo ds mon 3 metres carres!!! je me leve et finalmt decide de quitter la ville le soir meme direction san pedo de atacama par le us de nuit<br>encore une fois il ny apersonne ds lhotel, c un peu triste....<br>je prends mes sacs et hop direction la playa<br>c est un peu couvert ce matin ( ca ressemble au temps de brest : humidite et vent....), je pars ala recherche dun ptit truc ou je pisse prdre ...

... something wrong I hadn´t even got fully dressed when i opened the door and there were soilders with guns shouting at<br>me to "GET OUT" "GET OUT" oh my god did i get dressed quickly and RAN! out of there ha. I jumped on the bus and was delighted to get out of there. <br><br><br>Arriving in Calama - Our Connection - 2nd 10 hr jouney <br><br>We Arrived in Calama happy to have a 2 hour break before the ...

I went to the Valle de Azapa, outside of Arica. It´s like 15 min by colectivo taxi. God bless the colectivos- the joy of riding in a car while paying the price of a bus. Once again, I found myself smushed in the middle of the backseat. I got out and visited the archaeological museum where they have an old olive press (there are fields of olive trees in this valley) and the oldest mummies in the world. The mummies are pre ...

My bus arrive at Tacna at 3:30am, from which I immediately followed a colectivo driver to his 1990´s Ford to take me across the border to Arica, Chile. His car was in a lot full of big old American cars unlike any taxis or colectivos I´ve seen yet. The guidebook said that all these border running colectivos were like this but I didn´t believe it till I saw it. Once we got 4 other passengers in the car we pulled out onto the road: 3 in the front, 3 in ...

... to the bus terminal. <br><br>We bought our tickets for 20 soles ($6.85US) on the bus company "Flores". The bus wasn't very crowded, so we were able to pick the front row seats. We assumed having a view out the front window would help pass time a little more quickly. The view did help, but we didn't take into account that the day's journey would take us through the closest thing to Tatooine (the mythical desert planet from Star Wars) on this planet, where there is ...

... the tongue so much, as it did with the extra portion of mean on my plate, which when layed out flat was very obviously a section of the back of the animal's throat. Not exactly for eating, and made me very quickly put down my cutlery and refuse to eat anything else as my appetite had suddenly disappeared. <br><br>Needless to say the remainder of the journey was long and tiresome, with some more sleep, some reading, some music listening and ...

... meniul ¨turistico¨, cu ciorba de chestii marine si peste cu legume. Ciorba era mai degraba ca o tocanitza de scoici, calamari si alte inotatoare, cu ceva zeama. Iar marele amator de peste nu a putut sa o manance, ca era prea aromata, adik se simtea prea tare gustul scoicilor. Cred ca totusi, lu´tata i-ar fi placut la nebunie. Trebuie sa il trimit pe aici. In centrul orasului este si biserica San Marco. Aceasta ...

... 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. We went to see some sights the following day as our flight wasnt till 9 that night. we read that the guy who designed the Eiffel tower also build a church completly out of cast iron in Arica, so we said wed go have a look, man were we seriously disappointed. To say it was **** would be an understatement, it just looked like an ordinary little church ...

... for some lunch. From the sidewalk tables at the one cafe that we could find, our perception changed. You couldn't tell the seafront attractions were in a state of disrepair, or really see how ugly the beach was, just the shimmering ocean through the tall palm trees. Add to that a fantastic lunch made with fresh ingredients and served with style, delicious smoothees and italian icecream .... not so depressing after all. We talked about ...