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South America » Chile » Tarapacá » Iquique
January 30th 2014

Published: June 23rd 2017

Geo: -20.2208, -70.1485

The earthquake hit with full force just weeks after I left...Anyway, now I am still here...Iquique is a nice city with a beautiful beach and the usual cold ocean current at any time of the year...

Anyway, I was hanging around the beach for a couple of days before hitting the road towards...Arica and onwards to Peru and the Amazon...Nope...This will be done on my next trip...the Highway Transoceanico...This time I backtracked towards San Pedro de Atacama in order to pass over the Mountains into Argentina...

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Another leg along the beautiful moon landscape...

Another leg along the beautiful moon landscape...

Another leg along the beautiful moon landscape...

@Iquique beach

@Iquique beach

@Iquique beach

@Iquique beach

The tiny one in the shoppingcart...

The tiny one in the shoppingcart...

The tiny one in the shoppingcart...

had an eye for me and talk to me such a fast Spanish that I simply had to reveal...I did not understand a thing...After I mentioned that I am from Germany, they engaged into a conversation with me...yes, in slow Spanish...

@Iquique beach

@Iquique beach

@Iquique beach...

@Iquique beach...

@Iquique beach...

I had to buy strong lights for the pitch black...

I had to buy strong lights for the pitch black...

I had to buy strong lights for the pitch black...

nights in the mountains

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

Lost somewhere in the high altitude atacama desert

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