Gavina Iquique

... seafront walks together with boardwalked pavements along cobbled streets that are lined with old wooden colonial style houses. There have been a number of people here who have made this there home for a fortnight even though they have nothing else to do other than just hang out on the beach. Iquique offers surfing, sandboarding, a very small number of tourist ...

... Japanese roomy, who is recently divorced, has tons of money but likes to travel adventurously. There was the Australian man, a recovering alcoholic who was traveling away from his wife for the first time to do what he hadn´t been able to do in his youth (travel around the world). There were countless divorcees, who needed to get away from home for a bit. There were several couples who put their successful careers on hold in order to experience ...

... and form. The pisco sour, for the uniniated, is a cocktail, concocted primarily in Chile and Peru, made from a regional brandy, limon or lime juice, egg whites, simple syrup, and bitters. Well, anyway, we had another lovely fish dinner with wine. We took a cab to the free trade zone, but it I wasn't too impressed with it. Ebay is better! So, after a few more beach days, decided to head to Santiago.

Just as Australia begins to collectively **** itself at the influx of economic bad news..... Bonds decides to pack up its underwear and ship off overseas.......man, there are some people who just don´t know timing!!!!! My trip to Iquique was probably timed equally off target. An arrival at about 2am, when the street bums find courage and the hookers find a bed. I wanted a bed too........to myself however. The rare taxi that passed ...

... freaky looking, especially when theyre on top of buildings and still look massive. Our second lunch was at a little restaurant on the north side of Playa Cavancha. The menu consisted of this cheese salad whose name escapes me, followed by turkey with rice and tomato (for me, Miguel had chicken) and a few slices of honeydew melon for dessert. We've been having a few meals at Schopdog, as they're quite simple and easy on our travelling tummies, as well as tasty. On our ...

... well. Did I mention that the bar we were at had LIVE music playing and you wouldn't have been able to hear someone play the guitar outside - much less banging the side of one? So we spent 5 days at the Iquique beach. We originally were just going to spend two and move on but we loved the beach so much we had to stay. But we just couldn't stay at the old man's hostel anymore. So after the 2nd night we moved on down the beach to a Backerpackers Hostel ...

... Iquique. Arribem fet i fotut, cap a les 9.30pm. Després de 4h i mitja més de bus. Ens allotgem a l'hostal Casablanca. 18.11.2008 Wir nehmen ein kontinetales Fruehstueck ein (bald kommt es mir zu de Ohren raus) und gehen dann in die Stadt. Wir haben uns Iquique als nette Kolonialstadt vorgestellt und einige Gebaeude sind auch noch ganz schoen anzusehen, aber ein grosser Teil ist leider sehr heruntergekommen. Ausserdem vermischen sich moderne (nicht sehr ...

... much after the second bottle of wine and something else we were drinking too.. I woke up in the morning at Juana´s brothers place..! No idea how I got there at all... Now, I do feel really bad about this as the place Buddy and his wife live is really small, as big as my lounge and kitchen in my flat in Brighton. I was sleeping in the bed that Juana should have been in and Juana her brother and his wife were ...

Over a year later and I am going to try finish this travel blog.... <br><br>Right well the beach time did not work out as it is winter in South America at the moment. We did set a new record for ourselves though by staying in 3 different hostels for the 3 nights we were there.... <br><br>On our second morning I went parapenting or paragliding I think in English, basically the guy who owned the hostel was a qualified ...

I was headed straight for Iquique and arrived very late at night. With the address of my guesthouse wrong in the Lonely Planet handbook, I found myself in the middle of a dark street with quite the shady guys looking around - drunks, street people - and the guesthouse was nowhere to be found. Pretty miserable start to my Iquique stay. <br><br>I gave up on that guesthouse idea and phoned another one which had more of a central location, and asked for the address this time, telling them ...