Iquique, Chile Travel Blogs

By the Seaside
Apr 1, 2006 (1 photos)

... stray dogs outnumber the locals. We walk down Barros Arana for about a kilometre till we get to the hostel. Backpackers Iquique is close to the beachfront and is full of over-tanned and skimpily dressed Westerners who smoke maruijana and chat each ...

Long journeys, short tempers!
Mar 24, 2004

... we were all turfed out at yet another security checkpoint, where once again, all luggage was inspected. We eventually arrived in Iquique shortly before 10 pm, feeling drained and certainly travel weary. As luck would have it, we were able to check-in to ...

water, water everywhere ....
Mar 7, 2006

... and seriously considering if her ex had been a major drug user. And so, after far too much cold weather, I've travelled to Iquique in northern Chile to soak up a few rays and prepare for the journey to Quito where I catch my flight home. I've left ...

From the petroglyphs of ancient time to the ocean
Apr 10, 2008 (27 photos)

From the petroglyphs of ancient time to the ocean

chile
Dec 19, 2007 (9 photos)

So we ended up in Chile... after crossing the border we went straight to a coastal desert town called Iquique which the lonely planet described as very nice with lots of adventurous things available, but we saw none of those. the town seemed dead, ...

Part 5: Taking to the skies from Iquique
Apr 6, 2009 (29 photos)

... .The town was officially closed in 1961. The social life in Iquique was also great and I will really miss the people that I ...

Viedma to Puerto Montt to Iquique. Bum's numb!
Jun 4, 2007 (13 photos)

... lunches out as well. While in Valpo we changed our flights and flew from Santiago airport (avoided the city itself) to Iquique. What a weird and wonderful desert landscape!  The town itself is full of contrasts. Some parts look like a well- ...

Dec 21st (the Southern Hemisphere's Summer Solstic
Dec 21, 2008

Today was the longest day of 2008....again.

Paragliding in Iquique
Feb 22, 2009 (4 photos)

... seen and it was hilarious. I will hopefully get a picture up of it soon so you all can see. Anyways, we arrived in Iquique by 5pm and found a pretty good hostel. Iquique is another beach town, similar to Huanchaco and Mancora, it is very hot and the ...

Iquique - our last stop in Chile
Jul 1, 2007 (3 photos)

... was full of people.  We tried in vain to figure out what was happening and then gave up and wandered some more.  Iquique has quite a nice vibe to it.  There were lots of families about and the town is big enough to have good shops but not ...

Iquique
Aug 23, 2007

Only stayed one night here for transit to the airport the next day. Not much to say about it really........It's a small town with a good surf beach that is overlooked by - yes, dry and sandy mountains.

The rhythm of a bongoist
Jan 26, 2009

... pack-o-dogs was looking inviting...... I could have done it....... you know,....on all fours......if I had to......   Iquique was, though, a real lovley place. A kind of country and western main street with wooden side walks and old-school ...

Sea and Sky
Dec 12, 2007 (11 photos)

After another full day of travelling before I arrived in Iquique on December 12.  Crossing into Chile was a bit of a shock to the system.  After the last couple of months in small towns in Ecuador and Peru it seemed odd to see things like ...

Iquique
Nov 26, 2007 (4 photos)

... by desert) but it seems a bit nicer.  Again, a fairly laid-back town.  Maybe this happens all throughout Chile, but in Arica and Iquique, taxi drivers will stop and let you cross the road -- really a shock after coming from Bolivia and Peru. ...

Pie de Limon en Chile
Oct 15, 2003 (18 photos)

... marks to Michael for staying on his horse especially as it had a tendency to be spooked and gallop after the lead horse. Iquique Although we would have liked to have stayed at Hacienda Los Andes our budget will not allow it. After a gruelling 17 hour ...

Beach Time!
Jul 14, 2008

... guy who owned the hostel) jumped off the side of the cliff  and spent about 20 or so minutes sailing down over the city of Iquique to the beach.  Totally cool... took loads of pics from up there which I will upload, just on a mission to get the ...

Beach, heat and impressive cliffs
Jan 31, 2008 (16 photos)

Squeezed between the ocean and steep cliffs of the desert brown mountain range, this is a major beach town packed with Chilean tourists....and me! Check it out on the map.

Surf city!!
Nov 6, 2007

... , I know I couldn´t.  That evening we had trouble finding a restaurant never mind an open one and the one we did go to was rubbish, beer was good though.  The next morning thankfully we left Iquique and headed towards Arica our last stop in Chile.

A feeling of the ghosts of yesterday.
Feb 23, 2007

I dined tonight, tempted with the 2 pound board menu at "The Flying Cloud Clipper Inn". It is an old timber double fronted building with railed front verandahs on both the upper and lower floors, the windows on the ground floor are huge and leaded in ...

Brush your Teeth
Aug 18, 2009

Davy here, i have not yet done an entry as Elve has typed them all so this is my first entry, here it goes, Went to the supermarket, bought wine, drank wine, ran out of wine, I drank beer and Elve drank beer for the 1st and last time ...

Getting a bit chilly
Dec 3, 2007

... it would more likely be aikido than taekwando, it being Segal and all. They were impressed with my knowledge. Probably. Anyway, Iquique. Seaside town. Slightly run-down in parts. Somewhat seedy air. Hmmm. It's Blackpool, innit? And closed on Sunday. So a ...

Iquique
Jan 4, 2008 (6 photos)

... . Die Angst vor Tsunamis ist gross, in den Städten findet man überall Karten, auf denen die Sicherheitslinie eingezeichnet ist. Iquique war ja nur ein kurzer Aufenthalt, 2 Tage, und diente vorallem dazu, die Peru- Reise einigermassen zu organisieren. ...

Iquique - Beach & Band Aids
Dec 16, 2008 (49 photos)

... to eat there either so it was probably for the best. Next was the 5 hour bus ride to the coastal, desert, mountain town of Iquique. The hostel we wanted to stay at was full so we went to our second choice. An old man named Domingo answered the door and ...

A return to the beaches.
Nov 15, 2007

HI in Iquique

Iquique Chilie. Warm weather cold water big waves
Apr 5, 2006 (21 photos)

... up to 5000 meters hovered over the water line it was incredible. The mountains had no trees just rocks and sand very cool. Iquique was an awesome little town sitting right below the huge mountains on the oceans edge. We stayed in a great hostel which ...

Iquique
Mar 7, 2006 (5 photos)

... exciting entry! We took a 22 hour bus ride (thats right 22 LONG LONG HOURS!!) from Santiago to a town called Iquique which is in the north of Chile. We´re putting this entry in pretty much just to put a pin on our map!! After that horrible, horrible bus ...

ARICA TO SANTIAGO
Feb 14, 2006 (39 photos)

... We wanted to get further south and decided to move on to Iquique. We left for the bus station to catch a collectivo to Iquique 4hrs away. We organised this through a tourist guide who spoke good English. We confirmed with him the price was 15,000 pesos ...

Life´s a beach and then they get high...again
May 7, 2007

... the US or he (he sees himself as the US personified) does. Enough of the ranting, what about the positives of the Iquique situation. Well, like I said the hostel was nice. Other than that I got ill, posibly from the sheer amount of passive smoking I was ...

Iquique
Nov 17, 2008 (14 photos)

... es ins Internetcafe, und wir arbeiten an unserem Travelblog. Dimarts XVIII - XI - MMVIII 8am riiiiiiing! Toca visitar la ciutat d'Iquique! Després del típic esmorzar continental de sempre... anem al centre -2 min a peu- Amb una horeta encara no, ja ...

Trip to North Chile
Feb 3, 2008 (4 photos)

... at the hostel at that point watching TV and he had a completely different sensation than me. Quakes happen very often in Chile, for instance in Iquique there have been 4 quakes in the last two months. Chile is a place with a lot of tectonic activity ( ...