Arica, Chile

km 14261
Sorry about that. We´ve been on the road for the last week so haven´t had time to write. We are in Arica, the most northerly town in Chile. We Arrived here on Friday. I´ll give you a quick rundown of where we´ve been in the last week first.
We went to the beach in Costa Rica last week Friday and went back to San Jose on Saturday. We left San Jose after church on Sunday for Panama City where we arrived Monday morning. That evening we flew to Quito, Ecuador. We took an overnight bus from Quito to Tumbes, Peru, on Tuesday, another one from Tumbes to Lima on Wednesday, and another overnight bus from Lima to Tacna where we arrived Friday morning. Then we took a cab to Arica. It´s been an interesting week, especially the last two days have been rough (more on that later).
The beach in Costa Rica was amazing. If I remember correctly that´s the first time I´ve been to a beach for my birthday. We went to Manual Antonio, just outside the national park of the same name. All we did Friday was swim and tan. Saturday we got up early and went to the park where we saw several kinds of monkeys, iguanas, a sloth, and something that we don´t know the name of. We went swimming at the beach inside the national park too. There were some big waves so we had a lot of fun.
On Monday, we spent the day in Panama City because our bus arrived there in the morning, and our flight didn´t leave till 7:oo pm. We heard about some big ditch there, so we thought we´d go check it out. I´m talking about the Panama Canal of course. We went to the Miraflores locks, the first set of locks on the Pacific side and saw two ships go through.
Sorry, this internet place is closing so we have to go. We´ll be in Santiago in a few days. Pics coming.
Pieter