We had a good night on the bus and were fed a decent (hot) dinner as well as breakfast with tea. Managed to book seats in the first row of the 2nd floor of the bus so had panorama views of the dramatic desert scenery with snow capped volcanoes on the horizon.
Arrived in Ariquipa around midday and managed to find a bus continuing on to Tacna fairly easily. Only had about 30 minutes wait at the bus terminal before departing. The local people here had to us quite unique faces. Very Andean.
The bus on to Tacna was much more basic than the long distance busses generally are, clearly local use with many stops. We, or in any case our fellow travellers, enjoyed a Transporter ´movie festival´seeing 1, 2 and 3 in Spanish, while the desert scenery outside confounded our comprehension.
Arrived in Tacna after 8pm and where blessed with an honourable taxi man to take us in to town. The hotel we chose had one room available which we occupied gratefully. Being properly horizontal for a nights rest becomes very precious, not to mention the delights of a shower and clean teeth.
Tacna was bedecked in mustart yellow and wine red banners with the Peruvian flag in much evidence. There was a parade taking several hours to move through the main street with bands and floats and dancers. We found out they were celebrating 80 years of reunification with Peru (Chile won the town in a war in 1880 but in 1929 they all voted to rejoin Peru).
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