Hostal Colonial Arica
General Lagos N0 710 Arica, Chile
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Surf's up!
... of a desert. This would make perfect sense as it is the driest city on earth. The town centre seemed nice with plenty of shops, department stores and restaurants. There were also some nice little parks and seating areas scattered about and an interesting looking church but really we were here for the beaches and only the beaches. Still following our Lonely Planet we were guided through the town and past the port to a small beach the south of the city. It wasn’t quite ...
2 days in Arica
... god they tasted good, its been a while since we had really good food I nearly cried. We also found Arica's local beer, which is like a dark ale. It was a great afternoon.
Later that evening the hostel did a bbq, sausages and steak, really tasty. We had a few Pisco sours and whupped another couple at pool (pure fluke).
We were up not so early the next day for another coach trip, this time to Iquique.
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Beach bumming in Arica.
We arrived in Arica after a terrible nights trip from San Pedro. Apparently you have go give your passport up to a bus boy so that the Chilean police can check it even though you do not cross any borders...
Arica is the most Northerly town in Chile, smack bang on the border into Peru and Bolivia. The population is around 200,000 and the City lies on the Sea with a shipping port ...
Sunny Days Hostel....another all night party!
... br> Well it’s Sunday night and the party started at 12.30am and didn’t finish until 8.30am. When we went down for breakfast the owner and the staff looked shocked re the party last night. Surely they must have been able to hear it whilst setting up breakfast???
We got in a taxi and checked into our new ...
Chilly in Chile (and stuck).
... and waiting forever. But we were very pleasantly surprised when early on Monday morning, the nice lady in the Registro Civil, checked Glyns ID and then printed out a copy for us and stamped it. It took ten minutes and was much easier than we had thought. So that afternoon we went to get the Revision Tecnica done (equivalent to a British MOT) by waiting in a queue for almost 2 hours, and unfortunately the car failed on its handbrake.
We ...


