Arica Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Staying true to our travel style leaving Cusco we arrived at the bus station and after searching a few buses one was leaving right then and therefore allowed us to bargain down the price. We jumped on and it was one of the dirtiest and oldest buses, but we could open the window which was lovely. The scenery was breath taking, especially the suns...

A night at a bus - a very economical and not too tiresome way of traveling here in Chile. Left Sand Pedro yesterday night, and here we go, in Arica, just before kicking off to La Paz, my main destination for my month internship in Bolivia. I was fished here by lovely lady to stay at her lovely guest house just opposite to bus terminal - that wil...

Well it looks like we can't really get out of this town for a few days...the buses across the Andes into Argentina (and moisture) are booked until the 17th. So we'll divide our time between Arica and San Pedro de Atacama, which is about 12 hours from here in the higher desert. Arica is fine to hang out in...it's just that the minute someone tell...

Left Arequipa at 6:30am to miss the morning rush. Our desert highway offered us great long views. The road was fairly straight forward, but for our entertainment value, they had to throw in some construction to keep us on our toes. We arrived at the Chile border around 1:00 and left at 3. What should be a simple process is complicated by chasing...

Day 49 (July 27th): Arica, Chile We settled into our hostel, "Sunny Days", a veritable home away from home. It was run by a friendly laid back kiwi Ross, and his Chilean "kiwi" wife Beatriz. The hostel was full of kiwis, so Fraser could quite happily reminisce with them about NZ and the possibility of winning this year's world cup (that's rugby ...

Arica, Chile - June 28th - June 30th, 2007 Day 44 Arrived in Arica at 7am just as the sun was rising. Upon speaking with local tourist info guy I found out that today happened to be the final day of competition in the Rip Curl Pro. So I quickly got to a hotel this time right on the beach and got myself to the competition. Upon arriving the compe...

Another 10 hours on a bus from Puno to the border town of Tacna the gateway to Chile from Peru. Found a collective taxi to drive us the 20 km to immigrations at the border and a further 20 km to the nearest Chile town of Arica. Spending the day looking around Arica before junping on another 12 hour bus to Calama in Chile to catch another 15 hour...

We arrived in Ariquipe at 6.30am glad to have survived the horrors of the previous nights journey. Had a break for around and hour and a half before getting our next bus to Tacna on the southern border with Chile. This journey took 6 hours and wasn´t as bad. The scenary had changed to mountainous dessert but I think it was catching up on sleep, ...

Chile is so different to the rest of Latin America. They have paved streets all over the place. The houses are properly built and painted all sorts of colours. Walking around the streets is a whole new experience, for one thing you can cross the road and cars actually slow down or wave you across. In the rest of Latin America most cars speed up ...

Dear Class 3 Thank you for sending us these questions. We are sorry to have taken so long to reply but we haven't had access to the internet for some time. We had hoped to reply from the small town of Huara where there used to be an internet café, but unfortunately it was destroyed in a recent earthquake. Best Wishes, Philip and Andrew Have you ...