Arica is totally different from Santiago. Santiago prides itself in being European, and the people are very European too—I hate to make it so simple—but basically formal and very white. Arica, on the other hand, is more like the Latin America I am familiar with—Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama. The city is full of brightly-colored buildings, the environment is casual and lively, and the people are all shades of brown. I like it here.
e Arica’s slogan of “Siempre Primavera” “Always Spring”). Zander started walking into the water because he had spotted something and sure enough it was starfish—dozens of them all over the rocks just a couple feet off the shore. We picked one up for a picture.
