Radisson Hotel Iquique

... including the chance to visit the ghost town of Humberstone and last but certainly not least, paragliding, which is why I am here. I have wanted to be able to fly for as long as I can remember and paragliding is something that I have wanted to do ever since first becaming aware of it about 10 years ago. The idea of being able to walk out through the front door ...

The flight to Iquique was quite short around 2 hours and pretty uneventful thankfully. The views from the plane were amazing as it flew right up the coast of Chile and you could see the snow capped Andes in the distance. Iquique itself is situated between huge sand dunes and the sea and we were hoping to do some surfing. Unfortunately the conditions weren´t really much good and I spent most of the time coughing and struggling ...

... term travel together, there was the documentary filmmaker.. the list goes on and on. Everyone on that boat seemed to have an interesting story. One thing about Patagonia - because it´s so far south - is the enormous strength of the sun due to the thin ozone layer. Many times on the Navimag I would step out on deck for just 5 minutes and despite the clouds - I would feel my face sizzling. I´ve been to southern destinations a lot, but none of them ...

... full or intoxicated, and the bus stop fell outside the boundaries of my map. The least threatening bum searching for discarded nappies amoung the pile of road side garbage was bothered for directions on my behalf. He sized up my body to size ratio and thought sound advice better be offered. He mumbled and pointed....I followed the point and mubbled in return. I continued down a road that I hoped would lead me further into town ...

... night Miguel and I shared a Rocket there, which is a giant tube keg of beer, easily filling more than 4 of their giant beer mugs. We saw some nice nice ceramics at the feria in Baquedano, but the prices were outrageous! We also checked out the Zofri (duty free zone) and although there was so much that would normally tempt me, I resisted as the pocket is running extremely low, and with 2 months to go I can't falter. On the way back we went to the Muelle de ...

... was a very good choice. This place is made for young travelers - they had a kitchen we all shared, games, outdoor area, BBQ, pool table. All sorts of things that help people meet each other. The best was making dinner every night in the kitchen with 10 other people. It was fun to talk about where people have been and where they're going. The funny thing about our room was that our bathroom was bigger than the bedroom. The bedroom was dark and didn't ...

... Baustile mit den kolonialen Baustilen...uns gefaellt das irgendwie nicht. Der Stadt fehlt irgendwie Stil. Naja...Wir schlendern ein wenig herum, machen Fotos, gehen lecker Mittagessen und buchen anschliessend noch unsere Tagestour fuer morgen. Wir werden zwei "Geisterstaedte", ein paar Oasen und noch ein paar andere Sachen besichtigen. Danach geht es ins Internetcafe, und wir arbeiten an unserem Travelblog. Dimarts XVIII - XI - MMVIII 8am riiiiiiing! Toca ...

... in one double bed together!! So I got up and made it back to my hostel at about 10am and then, as to their credit they were still talking to me, we arranged to meet up again in the afternoon as this was now the 18th Sept and the actual Independence day. We had this huge meal at Buddy's place loads of meat and some more alcohol of course. After the meal we went out to the back of this house where he lives and met up ...

... instructor so we got up bright and early and Steph was official spectator and when the wind was right and the parachute thing was floating in the air we (being me and the 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 ...

... I was and how I could get there - "Hurry!" they told me. "Get out of there - this is a dangerous place, where you are at. It's very late!" Which I did.<br><br>It was very dark, but once in the center I could see what visiting Iquique was all about, seeing the center - which is as if it was cut out of a Wild West movieset, the houses super cute and in such many different and bright colours, and the long beach line and boulevard. I was staying smack in the middle of the center.<br ...