Day: 372
One last excessive travel day for the next few weeks started today, with the goal of making it from Arequipa, Peru to the San Pedro de Atacama desert in northern Chile where we plan to make our transition into southern Bolivia.
A cab pulled up at our hostal at 6:35am and we headed to the bus station in Arequipa where we caught the 7:30am, for a 5 hour ride to the border town of Tacna, Peru. After an hour and a half or so of getting the next two legs of our trip settled with a local travel agent, we piled with 3 other people and a driver into a big Ford and headed for the border. We were easily stamped out of Peru and just as easily stamped into Chile, the driver guided us through the whole process taking us right to the agents he seemed to know.
With the time change it was after 5pm when we got to the bus station in Arica, Chile where we waited another 5 hours for our night bus to Calama, where we would have to change again for one more short ride to San Pedro de Atacama.
Essentially it was an entire day of travel, but at least nothing awkward happened, as sometimes does in border towns (other than the two shady guys who watched me take money from the ATM in the Chile bus station and proceeded to stake out Felicia and I while we sat in a cafe for 5 hours. Finally the security guards took notice and checked them for bus tickets, when they didn´t have any they were kicked out of the station)
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Oh don’t you just love these travel days?
Good for you to look out for the bad guys.
Have fun.
Windows bars…promising