Iquique Hostels - Reviews and Rates

We left Arica around noon on Saturday. Before we left however, Mike ordered the biggest sandwich any of us have ever 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 ...

I've made a major leap since my last post, but I'll backtrack sometime in the future, and write about my experiences in Trujillo, Piura, Mancora, Lima and Arica, but for now I'll write a bit about the last couple of days here in Iquique. Miguel and I arrived in the evening; our bus had left at 2pm from Arica, but did not arrive in Iquique until ...

12 hour bus journeys are never fun. Particularly not when you've had very little sleep. So when the hostel you're in decides it's going to have an "80s night" before your 7am bus, think about changing your journey. 80s night? Pah. I never dressed like that in the 80s...Ridiculous. I missed most of it. Went for a curry with some people I'd been i...

October 1 - 3 Iquique, Chile. Weather - quite fine. The best thing about staying with a local, apart from the comfy homey surroundings and the nice bed you get to enjoy, you can take the money you saved on accomodation and blow it on food. These three days have been spent eating, walking, eating, walking and eating. Pedro has been a great host. ...

Early in the morning, after a carefully rationed breakfast at the hostel, I was picked up for my first flight in Iquique. We reached the site at Alto Hospicio and I was taken in by the sheer beauty of the site - with nothing but vast sand dunes in front followed by miles of open ocean. And as I was told, the site worked all year round, I couldn'...