Hotel Del Valle Azapa Arica

... somewhere to get it fixed )it is Monday afternoon, but she has no meetings until later!), so Helena jumps on the back of the bike with Ian, off to the industrial park to find someone with a vice. Strangely she picks the once place run by a guy who spend 25 years living in Birmingham, and enjoys his conversation with Ian about England so much that he refuses to take any money for fixing the pannier and hook where it ...

... je pars direction le musee archeologiaue san miguel de Azapa<br>sur la route on apercoit, des montagnes de sable et des oliviersa gogo, et oui cest le pays de lolive!!! dailleurs jai retrve un truc ds mon sandwich, je lai enlevee, un peu dubitative, ms ca devait en etre une!!!!<br>jai mon manuel en ffrancais et je decouvre des traces des cultures chinchorro, tiwanaku et incas, puis des colons espagnoles.... on voit egalemt des ...

... which we were delighted <br>about but we got no answer when we tried so we had to go back to the bus terminal for an hour or so and try again . We eventually got into the hostel at about 7.30 and went straight to bed.<br>END OF!!! It hurts me to talk about it, worst 24 hours of our trip so far. Actually the only bad part. <br><br>2 days later we went over the border to Tacna - Peru without any hitch.<br>

... put on sunscreen, walked, asked another person, and so on for about 2 km. This was out in the country so there weren´t really street signs and everything just looked like fields of trees. I finally found a road someone told me to turn on and ended up following it to a dead end with some fields and 2 shacks. This could not be the picaflor. I asked one more person, made one more wrong turn and eventually ended up at the ...

... driver nodded off to sleep, snoring as loudly as the Ford´s engine runs. I heard a girl´s laughter outside and followed it to a group of American students waiting by the road. They were lucky enough to be the passengers of a Chevy with a trunk that doesn´t fully close and a tiger decal emblazoned on the side. We all gasped as we saw another car´s trunk open to reveal a man inside, all snuggled up for sleeping. He closed himself back in. "That is South ...

... the car, we were flying down the Pan-American highway in a 1992 Crown Vic going somewhere in the neighborhood of 100mph.. not kph, mph.. I can't say for sure because the speedometer was hovering somewhere near 7mph the entire time and the only part of the entire dash that seemed to work was the "low fuel" light the came on immediately after we left the terminal and went off after he stopped to put in a dollar's worth of 78 octane fuel. I had a pretty good view of ...

... i truly was a happy camper, wading in the sea under the moonlight like a crazy but ridiculously happy person!<br><br>The following two days were spent by the four of us buying supplies in the morning (ie. large amounts of the local spirit Pisco, something to mix it with, and sandwiches and snack foods), then heading down to the beach by midday where we proceeded to drink and eat the remainder of sunlight hours away, enjoying each others company ...

... tourist attraction of the region. Arica used to be part of Peru before that country lost the war of the Pacific back in 1880. It is now part of the XV region, a new region created after the separation of the Arica region from the one of Iquique (Region I) earlier this year. Arica is well known by surfers for the exellent waves in the Pacific Ocean and the city has also many lovely beaches to relax after this 12 week trip from Rio de ...

... flight with 2 stops. The room I had in the hostel was so small it just fitted my luggage :-) The next day I explored Arica, a nice village near the sea. I climbed the main attraction, a 110m high hill where you hav an awsome view of the city, the ocean. I also visited the Archeological Museum where they have one of the oldest mummies found.

... for some dinner in a hotdog restaurant that had these tall towers of beer called rockets sitting on every table. Blair and Patrick both had hotdogs but I ordered a rather disappointing chicken and rice dish that came with about and eighth of a chicken breast on the plate. I reminded myself I was in a hotdog restaurant. We went home and watched the Simpsons movie (in English!) and contemplated entering a new country the next day .... Peru!