Crossing the border to Chile
The oldest mummies in the world from the Chinchorro civilization from 5000 BC (7000 year old!)
Excellent ceviche for lunch
....and a good sushi dinner at the end of the day
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Chile - Arica, a port city and home of the oldest mummies in the world!
Arica is a surfing beach town along the Pacific in the north of Chile. Since Bolivia lost access to the ocean in a war in the eighteen hundreds against Chile, Arica serves as a free port to Bolivia. Arica has a strategic location by being near the Pan-American highway. As many as 700-800 trucks loaded with goods leave Arica to go to La Paz Bolivia daily. We did witness this truck traffic on the highway going to Putre (next post).
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