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Iquique Slideshow
Iquique
Travel Blogs from Iquique, Chile
Beachin' Amazing - Iquique, Chile
... ,500 including many ethnic groups such as Croatians, Italians, Greeks, Chinese, Arabic nationalities, Peruvian and British peoples. • Iquique is known to export nitrates, copper and ore from the Atacama Desert. • Founded in the 16th century, ...
Observations and thoughts on travelling and S.A
... the most persistent people at trying to get you into their restuarant!!! 3. NOONE uses push chairs/prams. In Argentina and Chile they have babies in blankets and carry them. In Peru and Bolivia they have their big colourful blankets and carry their ...
Apr 18, 2011
View from above
... ; We had a relaxing day eating good food and a great walk by the beach. Yesterday afternoon we made it to Iquique. Iquique is another beach city that has georgian style houses and a huge boardwalk along the ocean! Let ...
Experts for the bike.
Ruen and Jorge from S.A.M. in Iquique are doing a great job to get our bike fixed until the end of this week. It is clear now. The noise comes from the gear box. Andrea has still fever and got a tough cold. ...
Chile Time!!
... a long 2.5 day trip continually on a bus, with no 1st class options. We took the first leg of the trip from La Paz to Iquique in Chile. On route we passed through Arica, which seemed like a really nice beach town. We gave it a miss as we were keen to just ...
Poppers
... only for how desolate the desert was and then how stunning the mountains and descent were. Our first stop was the town of Iquique, which apparently had the highest consumption of champagne anywhere in the world during the '50's when it was worth a fortune ...
Feb 14, 2011
Ab in den Süden...
... saw some stone towers, geoglyphs and a lot of nothing... even though I thought I've seen a lot of nothing in the US or in Australia... Chile tops it all :-) Iquique is a bigger town at the ocean. The weather isn't that pretty today... grey in ...
frenzy
so we left the very boring and lacking arica for iquique about 4 hours south. iquique was defff an upgrade as it is called the miami of chile, it was a wierd combo of high rise buildings and then chill surf vibe, and an old colonial city with ...
To Fly with the Birds
Iquique So our last stop in Chile was Iquique, a city on the ocean, backed by giant sand dunes and high desert hills. The drive up to Iquique, once we got out of the barren desert and while it was still light, was beautiful, with the water crashing onto ...
La Playa
... , brown avocado, egg, white tomatoes, white lettuce, and wait for it, SMOTHERED IN HOLLONDAISE SAUCE), we boarded another bus, and headed to Iquique. I am here now. Last night I was out until 7, was bitten by a (non-rabid) dog after jumping the fence of a ...
Chillaxing in Iquique with 'BBQ King Raul'
... by the beach in preparation for the next game. We have generally spent our time watching football and chilling out in Iquique. Although I have managed to get dumped by the waves several times whilst surfing. All that time I spent surfing ...
Crossing to Chile and staying in Iquique
... a leisure reading, the House of the Spirit. The book became a highlight of my book- will touch on later! In iquique, I actually spent a long time finding hostels. Lots of lonely planet recommended hostels don´t speak Spanish, then 1 closed ...
Beach bums and Mummies
... at night searching for a hostel. Eventually we just settled on something for 1 night and found something nicer the next day. Iquique though was interesting enough to keep us busy for a few days. The museum in town houses the oldest recorded mummies ever ...
Chile´s Pacific coast
... believe that because we had some Pisco Sour there in a little bar and it was just great! Whne in Pica we also had a chance to swim in the Cocha Resbaladero thermal pool. It was lovely. Time to move on up the coast of Chile in search for some warmer weathe ...
Resting by the beach
... (in private). On the peninsular surrounded by water on three sides. We thought that was great, until the day of the big Chile earthquake. Iquique is many miles from Santiago, but still being in the same country was quite emotions. A few days after the ...
Ghostly nitrate works
... I put the bulk of my stuff in the luggage room where I was staying and flew to Iquique. This is where Arturo Prat became Chile's national hero although he never really got round to enjoying the benefits of being a national hero because he ...
Head in the Clouds
... given the wind conditions. So we walked a few blocks to the paragliding centre and booked a couple spots on the next session. Iquique was a cool town because, like Arica, it was in the middle of the desert and in fact, it backs onto a huge sand ...
Bolivia's Great! (thank Christ I'm not there)
... and how glad they were to be in Argentina. But don't worry - Bolivia's great. Yep. And thank God I'm in Chile now! Iquique is probably nothing to write home about, but I was very happy to reach the warmth and familiarity of the beach in ...
Iquique
Found my way to the beaches of Iquique. Didnt really do too much, looked around the city and spent days on the beach getting burnt. Reminds me of a small rio with the beaches. ...
Leap of faith
... hotel, market and of course the mining machines, long left to rest after Chiles copper mining boom of the 1900´s. Iquique main street biuldings, theatre and casino have also been left as they were in the days that mining ...
oh i do love to be by the sea side.
... us spag bol, can't say fairer than that. It was only a 4 hour jouney, we can piss that now, ive had longer shits. I liked Iquique as soon as we arrived nice and sunny, a chilled out surf town. The hostel was mint, a massive house right on the beach full ...
As good as new
With the monster putting up an encore of the night before, my attempts at getting sleep in the dorm failed and in any case, I was missing the comfort of the couch. The flight at Alto Hospicio was incredible and was in some ways a breakthrough as I had ...
Close call!
After another night on the couch, I awoke to the prospect of flying. Though it was not meant to be. I was glad for having met such great people and having made such wonderful new friends as Cristian gave my glider a thorough go over at the takeoff and ...
16 - 17 Oct: Onto and in Iquique.
... connecting bus ride from Arequipa, the 'collectivo' from Tacna across the border to Arica and then another bus connection onto Iquique were practically seamless. Checking into the 'Backpacker's Hostel' around dinnertime, I had a meal of 'pollo con arroz' ...
Iquique - Chile
... was straightforward thanks to the help of a taxi driver who took us across in his big Cadillac. Once in Chile we found a connecting bus to Iquique. We arrived in Iquique a couple of hours behind schedule at about 11 pm in the evening. We hadn´t had ...
Iquique
... we´ve made Iquique our resting grounds for a couple of days before moving onto Peru ... hopefully where it´s less expensive. Iquique is a nice town full of lodging and attractions for the tourists. We´re even right along the Pacific to take ...