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Near the Peruvian frontier, Chile's northernmost port lies below the Morro headland, backed by desert sand dunes.

A major port – it handles most of Bolivia's exports, as well as those of northern Chile – and an increasingly popular tourist centre, Arica is dominated by El Morro.

This is a massive reddish hill which is visible from everywhere in the town. While the walk to the top is strenuous the views are worth it, especially at night. There's an interesting Morro Museum, which explains how Chile took the hill, its fort and Arica from Peru in the 1880 War of the Pacific.

The small Archaeological Museum is well worth seeing for its remarkable displays on the Chinchorro people, who lived in the area from around 6000BC. They mummified their dead – long before the Egyptians did so – and the museum has mummies discovered at the foot of El Morro in the early 1980s.

On Plaza Colon is San Marcos Cathedral. This small neo-Gothic church is made of iron: it was prefabricated in France by Gustave Eiffel (of the Tower) in 1876 and carried by sea to Arica.

• TOUR E - CODPA VILLAGE
• Arica, Chile, Arica, Chile

• Departing from the pier we will take our coach and travel south to Codpa Village. En route we will go through the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world. We will make a stop to see Presencias Tutelares Sculptures – giant sculptures by Chilean sculptor, Juan Díaz Fleming.

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• TOUR A - ARICA CITY TOUR
• Arica, Chile, Arica, Chile

• Arica is a city of commercial and cultural mixtures resulting from its close proximity to Peru and Bolivia. It is the main shipping port for Bolivia and for the Peruvian City of Tacna. It is the only port in the desert area with water and vegetation. Roads and railways link Arica to both countries.

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• TOUR C - MAN & THE DESERT
• Arica, Chile, Arica, Chile

• Arica is the northernmost city of Chile which, through history, has had commercial and cultural exchanges with the high plateau peoples of Peru and Bolivia. For almost 10,000 years Man has inhabited this land, framed by the driest desert in the world – the Atacama.

• ARICA - INFORMATION
• Arica, Chile, Arica, Chile

• This city is the northern gate to Chile and has a population of over 160,000 inhabitants. Arica is located very close to the Peruvian border and not far from the border with Bolivia. It is known as ‘the City of Eternal Spring’.

  Please note that the coaches in Arica are NOT air conditioned.

  The currency of Chile is the Chilean Peso – the US Dollar may be accepted.