Hotel Savona Arica

... to the frame!<br><br><br>Turns out she is Finnish although her parents are found Lapland, we find this really suspicious and believe this to be an early Christmas present from Santa´s daughter as she really helped us out a lot.<br><br>If anyone is heading to Arica, we recommend the Beach hostel (can´t remember the full name) at Tomas Aravena 132 tel: 58-317196, Helna speaks Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish

... momifies... remarquables, ca a lair detre tt neuf alors que ca date de 6000 av JC pour la civilisation chinchorro!!!<br>je repars et prds mon billet de bus au passage, ce soir ce sera 12h de bus, pour san pedro<br>je me fais deposer a la playa ac un microbus, et je me fais dorer la pillule pdt 30 mon car en fait, il fait beau ms ca caille!!!<br>bonne detente<br>ce soir, je bouffe ds une assiette!!! et je vis a nveau ds le bus!!!<br>

Beeep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep&#8230; our alarm going off at 6am to only be switched off again, and eventually I woke up with a start looked at the time and it was 6.40 we had to catch our bus at 7.30, so we rolled out of bed and groggly stumbled around the room and out onto the street to catch a cab.<br><br>We arrived into Tacna at 1pm, I had done a little research into how we would cross the border and we had 2 options get a scenic train ...

... del Picaflor, aka hummingbird sanctuary. All that time I thought it meant a place where you picked flowers. Well, I now have a new Spanish vocabulary word firmly cemented in my head. <br><br>As much of a hassle as it was, I can say that it was worth the trouble. This family owns a small farm and has created a special garden full of plants that hummingbirds like in hopes of attracting them. I did see quite a few of them ...

... because I was wedged between Taylor in the passenger's seat and the driver while the Chilean family filled the back seat with their copious amounts of baggage and strollers. <br><br>Twenty minutes and about 40 miles down the road, we were pulling into the Peruvian border crossing's parking lot. The driver was good at his job as he helped us bypass the large line of locals waiting to be cleared. We put our bags through the un-manned x-ray machine and walked through ...

... and being thoroughly entertained by Alec wrestling Chilean children on the beach! It was a perfect couple of days i must say, and i was certainly sad to be saying goodbye to both Barb and Alec (both of whom i had spent pretty much every day with over the previous few weeks) when it was decided they should return to their volunteering. But a perfect way to end things when you know you will see them again, you just aren't really sure when. Muy perfecto.

... The catherdral has been built by Gustave Eifel after the old one was destroyed by a tsunami back in 1870. But of course, the main purpose of being here in Arica is to go and see the volcanoes up in Lauca National Park spending the night in Putre to acclimatise for the altitude. But before doing this, we went for a last 2-day excursion up to Lauca National Park spending the night at the andean village of Putre (3500km) to acclimatise to ...

I made it to arica chile. there is supposed to be surfing here but i havent seen any. unfortunately the beaches are too far away to walk and need to take buses. i am staying in a ****** hotel because the hostel is full that i wanted. tomorrow i am going to go to iquique to see if that is better, but unfortunately the hostel i want there is full for saturday night, so i relaly have no way of meeting people for the next 2 days... so guess i will be kinda on my own.

On my last entry, I talked about our exit from Mollendo, getting as far as Tacna, Peru. Well, we were in a station wagon, I believe, being driven by a fellow who had picked the car up at the port, and was delivering it somewhere in Tacna. Well, anyway, we did get to the Tacna bus station, and caught a collectivo taxi to the frontera. There, we stamped out of Peru, into Chile. I was ...