Venecia Iquique
Tomas Bonilla 1196 Iquique, Chile
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Oh i do love to be by the sea side.
... of blokes cutting up fish on benches next to the road, with allsorts of animals crawling all over the place, dogs, cats, massive pelicans even sealions. It was mad seeing the sealions sat there waiting for the leftover fish heads, that was amazing not the ******* rotten shellfish. After tea we decided that because we wouldnt be near the beach for a while, we should have a few beers on there and watch the surfers for a while. After a bit i wanted to look in the rock pools at ...
Shopping...
... ist nicht ganz so schön :-) und die Produkte haben uns auch nicht so ganz zugesagt... und das obwohl's ganz verschiedene Sachen gab...
After our tour through the city we went to the shopping place... but somehow the shops and products didn't really look that good... and so we ended up with buying ...
A ghost town visit
... bakery, shopping district, etc. All the old equipment used for mining nitrate is still there as well; there is a fortune in scrap metal at this sight!
Just down the road from Humberstone is another ghost town that I really wanted to see; Santa Laura. I have never visited a town that shared my name before and I was hoping it would be as complex and wholly intact as its neighbor down the road. Wrong! Santa Laura had clearly always been a smaller mining ...
The day before the day before I get home
... when she opens her mouth this thought runs through your head; “Wwhhhaaat?”. Perfect British accent and gestures. She spent the last 8 years making a killing in Beijing, and now she is (much to her parents chagrin) spending a bit of the spoils on a world wide jaunt. I met her when she (for reasons unknown, other that I could never be mistaken for anything other than a gringo), asked me on the bus “Aye, are we here, yet?” ...
Head in the Clouds
... the wind conditions. So we walked a few blocks to the paragliding centre and booked a couple spots on the next session. Iquique was a cool town because, like Arica, it was in the middle of the desert and in fact, it backs onto a huge sand dune hundreds of feet high. The van took us up the highway to the top of this sand rock which overlooks the city and its giant dune.. a perfect takeoff spot. Secured to a professional, you jump off ...


