Arica Chile Travel Blogs

Arica is the city located in northern of Chile, and is the destination that has good weather, which has beaches and is the clos…

We arrived safely at our Hostel in Arica.  Our first impressions of the Jardin Del Sol was that it was a bit like the room…

The Chilean checkpoint and the behaviour of the Chilean officers on the border to Bolivia reminded me a bit how it used to…

Hello All,Yesterday afternoon was very nice. The weather in Lima was perfect, all the way up to 80 with light clouds. I check…

Night bus time!  As I wait for the bus to arrive, all I'm thinking to myself is, "Please, please don't let the passenger b…

Ok.. so now that we are in Chile.. I have been reflecting on what I thought of Peru.. There is definetly a difference.. We…

Not long after leaving Arequipa the road descends quickly and you are soon in the middle of a landscape similar to what Mars mu…

I took the decision to book a flight from Santiago to Arica as this is a long leg to do on a bus. I want to take a direct fligh…

For once an uneventful journey took us from Arequipa to Tacna (playing bingo for a free bus trip!) before catching the train ac…

This was one of the greatest days of the trip! First the took a look at Arica, which is a beachcommunity and quite rich it se…

Arica is a fair sized coastal town on the Chilean side of the Peru-Chile border, and we were only here a few hours to break up …

The journey back from Cusco to Arica was much more simple than my journey there. The buses were now running through to Arequipa…