Hotel Arica

... stopped itching and are only scars so things are looking good!! was halloween last night and the town was full of little kids dressed up - very cute! Sth American kids seem way cuter, almost makes you want one!!!<br><br>Catching the bus to Iquique today as we head our way down the coast to Santiago. <br>I´ll try to catch up on previous enteries when i get the chance....trips was too full on to do much writing!!<br><br>adios<br>

... la frontiere, certains descnedent dautres non, je descds , je fais passer mes sacs ds un truc qui controle ce quil ya a linterieur, et on commence a ns fre remonter ds un autre car, je ne veux pas, car mon gros sac et ds lautre soute, je comprds rien finalement les gens remontent ds le car initial et on est reparti! faut pas chercher!!!<br>jarrive a tacna a 3h et finalemnt je decide de continuer mon trajet vu qua tacna ya rien dexceptionnel et que la frontiere ...

... we would be leaving with both our money and dignity. Luckily we were both put in the same room which was slightly reassuring and a little more unnerving at the same time. He asked us if we spoke Spanish. Taylor shook his head "no" and I figured this was a good time to have him try to speak English instead of me trying to understand Spanish. His directions came more in the form of motions similar to Charades and "Simon Says" combined. He pretended to lift his shirt ...

... nice to be out of the dusty desert and back in the puna seeing vicuñas and other wild animals running freely along the road. Putre itself is a small but attractive little village at the bottom of a snow capped mountain. It is the last important village before the Bolivian border some 55km further up. We had a lovely dinner eating alpaca before spending the night at a local house. Luckily we had an electric heating mat as there was no ...

... lovely lunch near the water in an old train which had a romantic touch to it and the food was fantastic lots of fresh fish with herbs and full or flavour.<br><br>There is a very interesting museum just outside the city about the history of the northern part of chile and they are famous for holding some of the oldest mummies in the world, very interested and strange. The first mummies we have seen and they were surprisingly still in very good condition ...

... in Arica. A cabbie jumped us, and bundled us up in his cab, and took off for a hotel near el centro. Well, in my spreadsheet, I call it "the pit". We were too tired to do anything but unload, determined to locate a new hotel the next day. Well, after a night in "the pit", we found a new hotel, which was nice, but the woman running it was a little overbearing. Oh well. It does have a ...

... other travellers at the hostel. It was really beneficial for us because we didnt really have an idea of where we were going next. Now, we know we are going to keep going south and eventually cross into Bolivia. We spent the next day in Arica at the beach and seeing all the sea lions on their wharf. Chile is quite nice, as it is more developed than Peru or Ecuador, but with that comes more expenses. At night we went into town for dinner and saw a ...