Iquique Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Davy here, i have not yet done an entry as Elve has typed them all so this is my first entry, here it goes,

Went to the supermarket, bought wine, drank wine, ran out of wine, I drank beer and Elve drank beer for the 1st and last time EVER. Straight to the point cutting a long story short Elve brushed her teeth with the antiseptic cream fo...

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.

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Yesterday i arrived in iquique, chile. i was very happy to find a really cool backpackers hostel right near the main beach, which was just what i needed. Met ssome people last night from canada, usa, holland and hung out some with them. Kinda wanted to go out but the discotecas are supposedly 15 minutes by taxi so i decided not too. instead i we...

otro vuelo corto pero que nos ayuda a recuperar tiempo y reducir horas de bus. LLegamos en la nocha a Iquique

Soon we were in the town Arica, Chile. Now Peru is one hour ahead of the Midwest, and Chile is two hours ahead of Peru because of daylight savings time, so we had a little time change to get used it. We got there just after some buses had left for Iquique so we had to wait about 2 hours for the next one. We couldn't read the menu at the restaura...

Over a year later and I am going to try finish this travel blog....

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....

On our second morning I went parapenting or paragliding I ...

Roos and I said goodbye in Camaná and there I was again on my own. I headed down to Tacna, the Peruvian border town so I could take a shared taxi the next morning to cross the border into Chile. The "taxi" was actually an old seventies chevrolet American car which I shared with a few other young South Americans. Crossing the border was no proble...

After another full day of travelling before I arrived in Iquique on December 12. Crossing into Chile was a bit of a shock to the system. After the last couple of months in small towns in Ecuador and Peru it seemed odd to see things like stop lights and teenagers with "odd" (in a good way) hairstyles hanging out at the mall. Yes, there was a mall...

What more could you ask for after Arica, or maybe we just didnt have enough of the beaches, so we hit Iquique which is Chiles premier northern beach resort. We did limit ourselves to 3 days here, but could easily have spent more. Iquique does offer 240 hectares of duty free shopping, but could you believe in all that area I still could not find ...

Boarding the bus from Cusco at 7.30 the evening before, it turned out to be quite the fortuitous journey as my 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...