Arica & Micah´s Bday!

After our road trip in the Iquique area it was time to head even further north and check out Arica (20 km from the Peruvian border). We were debating whether or not to visit the nearby national park or to focus on Arica because time didn´t allow for both. Micah made the call (bday priviledges) and we stayed close to the coast. The first 2 days we stayed in a hostal run by an older New Zealander and his Chilean wife. This was the hotspot for older travelers which was quite a change from the young surfer hostal we had just come from in Iquique. We rented bikes for Micah´s bday and rode down the coast.

We found some caves on the road to explore. It was too dark to go far.

Gigi tried making a geoglyph for Micah´s Bday. Can you read it? It´s harder than it looks people! (P.S. It say´s Happy Bday)

We left the old timers hostal to go camping on a northern beach. Hurrah! We scored an umbrella again!

Everyday at sunset this group of kids would show up for bareback horseriding.

Fortunately, we found a viscous guard dog to watch our tent while we went on walks. She was really viscous, watch out. She barely even let us have room under the shade she was so viscous.

We couldn´t figure out what these groups of people were doing out in the water. It looked like they were dancing or something. Finally we figured it out when we saw a man walk up to shore with a bag of Machas (razorclams). The dancing was them digging with their toes to unearth the clams. And they got to take them home for dinner. Mmmmm!

"Thank god I have these sunglasses! You and me sun! You got nothing on me!"