Arica Chile

First port in Chile border to Peru

Arica, 19th Jan. 2010

This city Arica used to be Peru until the end of the Pacific war, then it became part of Chile.

It says that this is the driest in the world¡

Another cruise ship Seabourn came here before us¡

It does look really dry with desert behind the town¡

Lovely garden at the port

Funny shape of palm trees

Little market for tourists

Welcome to Chile¡

Local girls performances for us¡

The music band with police as an extra security welcome our group but failed to impress this dog?

Kind of Ibis became pest for town?

Birds dropping painted whole city street white¡

And this poor train, too¡

Thank God for dry climate for these houses built on the slop.

Imagine a torential rain?

A street

Relatively nicely maintained house

Main strip on this small town

A couple of cool locals¡

Local buses on busy road.

Traffic still exist on this quiet town

Fish market with 6 stalls

This man posed for my photo shot.

He speaks a little English and said this fish is Mahi mahi

This is Shark

This ugly looking seafood must be delicious

Iglesias(Church)

There is a big cross and a statue of Jesus on the top of this hill

Port area with full of palm trees

Old train station

Town hall building at the port