Hotel Arica
Avda Comandante San Martin 599 Arica, 1001708, Chile
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Day 16 San Pedro de Atacama to Arica 775 km
Day 15 Here we are in the Kunza Hotel in the Atacama desert, surrounded by volcanic peaks, none of which look that dormant. The light is wonderful and in the afternoon the desert wind brings a cooling breeze which fills our room with air and not sand, thank goodness. We drove into town this morning for coffee, an upside down cappuccino, …
Edge of the Altiplano
We take a flight up to Arica with LAN Chile, on the way briefly stopping at Iquique to pick up and drop off passengers. The plane flies along an arid coastline of interminable brownness bathed in hot Autumn sunshine. A never-ending steep escarpment seems to rise up out of the ocean into the hazy sky. This is the Altiplano, an area 3000-4000m above …
Sand-dunes in San Pedro / Chile
A quick glimpse in the guide-book (we're becoming increasingly blase about reading it) and oh ****...our Atacemeno outpost apparently does not have any ATM's!!! Stay on the bus to Calama(after 10 hrs already, Jules is becoming fidgety and emotional). Get off in Calama - essentially a service centre for the surrounding copper mines, with an …
Eureka!!
Been holed up in a backpackers run by an Australian for the last few days.. and boy does he know how to serve a good breakfast. Having become accustomed to the standard medialuna´(croissant - the shape of a moon..hence the name) and cafe con leche (if we lucky)...we were almost beside ourselves receiving fruit and yoghurt on the breakfast spread. A …
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Surf's up!
... another quiet one in.
We set aside our last day in Arica for some sights. After breakfast, scrambled eggs on toast, which is pretty rare in hostels, we headed off to a museum set on top of a huge rock, El Morro de Arica. We made our way up, stopping at some great viewpoints and arrived at the museum. This point on top of the rock was an old battle ground from 1880 when Chile and Peru were battling over Arica. The museum was quite interesting and gave some insight ...



