Left Arequipa on Friday and caught another long but slightly less painful bus journey to Tacna which is in Peru right on the Chilean border....Once we arrived in Tacna the only way cross the border is by car or bus so the locals have set up a system where by they charge people without cars a fee... about ten quid..and they drive you up to the border, sort out the various forms for you and help you through any possible complications.... Never before have I felt like an illegal immigrant but I did on Friday squashed into a car with 5 other people all Peruvian trying to get their stories straight so they could get into the country...The Chilean economy is a lot stronger so they have a lot of problems with Peruvians entering illegally to get work....those that where in San Diego with us and went down to Tijuana with us a couple of times will know the set up...seedy cross border area...horrible immigration officials...rubbish everywhere..!
Three of the peole in our car got turned back....
Anyway eventually made it across the border to Arica where we spent the night...
Our Trip
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