Here's Maria waiting for the bus to get underway!

Bolivia's Altiplano and Llamas!

Here I am at the Bolivian border!

The guy in blue/black jacket with his back to you was the one caught with drugs just 3 kilometers down the road in Chile!

Three German men with bikes! A modern Motorcycle Diary??

Just look at this magnificent Chilean volcano near the border!

Here are some Chilean pink flamingo! Hard to see!

Getting close to Arica! Look at the contrast! That's the green Azapa Valley to the left!

Maria at the entrance to the Chinchorro cultural museum.

Artifacts of the Chinchorro (7000-6000 BC). Their mummies are among the oldest in the entire world!

One of the interesting graveyards I have visited. This site had Christmas Carols playing from inside the tomb.

This is the river San Jose. It has water ONLY during February each year.

Here the water from the river is diverted into these storage pools. Egyptian scholars taught the Chileans this technology.

The water is moved through canals to the fields.

This is only one of many groves of olive trees. Chile is now a major exporter of olives.

Here is a grove of Mangos. A tropical fruit!

This stone art outside of Arica predates the Colombian Era also.

More stone art!

This is the entrance to Arica's duty-free port! Goods from all over the world enter Chile from this port.

A fish vendor in the seaside market. I have no idea what kind of fish that is!

Just one of the many industrial plants located in the "Sofria". Arica's duty-free area.

This small plant imports American clothing and then resells it throughout Chile and neighboring nations.