Blogs from Arica, Arica & Parinacota, Chile, South America - page 11

Matt writes - Arica was a warm relief after the rain and altitude of La Paz as Emma and I travelled with a Norwegian Hannah, Swede Anders, and Dutchman Jip. We had a confusing half an hour at the Bolivian/Chilean border where the bus conductor took the passports from everyone for checking elsewhere, whilst we missed another fantastic view of a snow capped volcano in the distance obscured once again by grey clouds. Our journey would take us through the beautiful national park of Lauca, although the weather would deny us this view also. Refreshments were taken at the beginning of darkness and a slither of orange sunset could be seen in the distance as we hoped for better weather at our destination. Our excitement was fuelled as we drove into town and past pedestrians clad ... read more

Hi everyone! Ive got a few pictures here of Arica. The first ones are from New years that I spent with my friend Benni and some people he works with in La Paz! Then I have some photos of me on the ¨job¨.... I dont have much more to write because the pictures are more than explanitory. Leave comments, ok?... read more

well we have now left peru...on our down hill trip to santiago.... we are here in arica for 2 days to chill out and have some beach time....sun sun sun...and now not at any alltuitde yeah!!!!!! we flew from arequipa to tacna then taxi over the boarder to arica.....and now just chillin out while j sleeps after our 430 am get up fly 600am hmmm.....and now we r 2 hours ahead....nice longer evenings....woohoo.....beach later today and tomorrow.....then we r flying to santiago.....will write more there.....hugz to u all love ian an jason.... hope chrissy was good to u all....... read more

Arrived in Arica after another eventful 10hr bus journey - people being sick left right and centre, police checking passports and some old woman wiping her grandchilds sick on the back of my chair - cheers! The hostal we stayed in was fantastic - Sunny days - and Ross who owned it was a really nice guy - obviously knew Paulines weak spot and he gave us cake when we arrived! The next day was spent arguing over many things such as the colour of the grass, black being white and other generally picking! The real issue was whether or not to hire a jeep and brave the Lauca Natioanl Park ourselves. After almost a full day of bickering it was Steve 1 Pauline 369! Get in! We collected our Jeep and headed off into the ... read more

We had really nice last couple of days here in Arica, sun has been shining, schedules been fully booked. Yesterday Michal went to town to organise bus tickets, some padlocks to secure our stuff and shopping, while I finally finished my thesis. In the evening we went to have a BBQ on beach with some friends. The food was delicious, lot of meat mixed together with peppers and onions and fried on some pan that was taken from tractor :) Franz and Maggie were showing us some traditional Chilean dance, I think its called Quenca. We drank some beer and Chilean vodka and lauged and talked until 4am. Then we had couple of hours of sleep and got up to organise more stuff. Gladly we got an email from Yoyo that he found someone who wants ... read more