Iquique Stories


A just Desert!

After leaving La Paz in Bolivia we landed in Iquique and the Atacama desert to go through immigration. In the queue going in there was a tremor.It felt like being in the underground in London. My bag was taken off the plane by mistake and I had to go out to go back in a check my bag back on again. We were worried that might happen and if my wife had ...


Final Chile trip

hey, so this weekend was a long weekend, no class on monday. Finally the students have finished protesting. Not all the demands where met, but the goverment agreeed, things need to change. I left a day early because my classes where canceled. What Luck... Iquique is a beach town that is beautiful. The town reminds me of a small southern california t...


From Layers To Laying Out

No doubt about it, we rocked our way across the border into Chile. We hired a car (proportions more in line with a boat) to make the quick trip and our driver impressed us with a mix of latin dance and american 80's pop. By any account, a very classy way to enter a country. Our first Chilean destination was Arica, a sunny oceanside city with a rathe...


Can you hear the drums?

After the trip through the Salar de Uyuni, we arrived in San Pedro de Atacama, where we stayed for 2 nights. We chose our hostel based on the fact that the LP said that it had hammocks, but were most disappointed to discover that there was in fact only 1 hammock. Funnily enough, as we walked through the doorway, we bumped into the people that we had m...