In February 2006 Niall and I undertook a jaunt to Arica in the north of Chile. We got a collectivo shared taxi across the border to Peru. Unfortunately, we both got a seriously bad dose of Arequipa's revenge and spent about four days in the bathroom. We were lucky enough to be visited by a friendly Peruvian doctor, who, at first, threatened to take us into hospital. A mild improvement the following day kept us out of the Arequipa Infirmary, largely thanks to some pills that had "the power of a thousand yoghurts".
Once we were back on our feet we headed back south to Chile. The Peruvian border town, Tacna, is a small quiet place, where I took this picture.
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