Hotel Arenas Blancas
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Iquique
... bus station, bought my return ticket (thank goodness because since it was a long weekend, pretty soon all the return buses sold out), and got a taxi to my hostel.
I stayed in a cool old house that has been named a historic monument and is now a hostel. I got bumped up to a single room for no extra price since it was practically empty there, got ...
Entre Calama et Calama (Iquique)
... que je commence tout juste à déchiffrer (météo, visibilité, durée, structure du carrefour, prestation, apparence, heure, direction du carrefour par rapport au centre, énergie, sourire, gestion des merdages, rhytme du show, type de quartier, proximité et niveau des autres jongleurs, proximité d'un endroit pour gens riches mais pas trop, dynamique corporelle, etc, etc, etc...). Je trouve assez rapidement mon feu rouge perso. C'est le seul de tout la ville qui marche bien pour ...
Paragliding, and Sealions!!
... Tiwanaku and Inca artifacts they had lots of stuff from the saltpeter mining. There's a place close to here in the desert where you can see the Pintados geoglyphs and a ghost town called Humberstone where the miners used to live. Pity it's my last day here. I had no idea!!! We walked to the main plaza, Plaza Prat, then walked to the harbour. There's a replica of the tall ship Esmeralda where we spotted ...
Hostel for kids....one night only Iquique
... tax-free shopping so we caught the local bus to the shopping mall. There were hundreds of shops selling pretty the same stuff. We weren’t looking for anything so after an hour we left.
There was one street in Iquique that was really interesting – pedestrianised with wooden walkways. All the houses were wooden, very old. It looked like a western; it was just missing a saloon with its swing ...
A ghost town visit
... Unfortunately, we discovered the perils of an unripe, bitter orange, so one of our usual favorite meals wasn't so good. It had turned out to be a dissapointing day for me.
Thus, the next morning, I had no problem packing up my gear before our bread and hot water breakfast. We had already decided that since there was nothing else for us in or near Iquique, we would move on to Arica, 4.5 hours to the north, from where we hoped to visit Lauca National Park. ...