Wanting to get straight out of chile we get a bus from Iquique to Arica and immediately get into an organised taxi to Tacna which is just within the Peruvian border. we arrive there about 8 our time but weirdly jump back 2 hours dye to the time difference. We get dropped off in a complete s***hole part of town and check into the first hostel we find. It's an expensive twin room but it has a tv and as we've done our research and found there's nothing here we've al...

We arrive in Iquique at about 5am, on the bus ride in in see loads of tramps and some definite dodgy looking characters so although the plan was to walk the 10 blocks we decide to get a taxi. When we get to the hostel re beds already made and we jump in an go to sleep until mid morning. When we wake up we go for a wonder and find the supermarket for food. We then hit the beach for a couple hours. For some reason chile has skinted us and we mooch wondering what to...

We arrive in San Pedro after the tour at about ten o'clock in the morning. When we get off the bus a couple of people rush up and hand us some leaflets for some hostels. We go for the plushest (and most expensive one) but figure we deserve a few days in somewhere nice after the tour. The hostel is as good as it looks on the leaflet and we check in, dump the bags and wonder out to get cash as we have no chilien pesos. The first cash machine doesn't work either doe...

A surprisingly comfortable nights sleeps means we get up with plenty of time to get to the agency office for 10.30. We decide to find the office before we grab breakfast. As we walk past the hostel breakfast we see scrambled egg and toast. It's about 9 now so we head out looking forward to our breakfast when we got back. Obviously nothing goes easy for us. It's 9.45 and we're back at the hostel asking for directions to the office, they tell us where to go, it's n...

We wake up and watch a bit of football, taking full advantage of the tv in the room. After the football we decide we should leave to go to Potosi. Due to the mess of the previous hostel we decide to get a taxi, which isn't much difference in price to the bus plus we dont have to give our passport numbers. The taxi arrives and we jump in and head out of sucre. About 20 minutes in we stop off at a police check point, we have to write our names on a piece of paper a...