Iquique - Blogabond

We are at the beach! Enjoying tucking into freshly caught seafood and drinking our own weight in Pisco Sour after watching John Terry´s penalty miss! (Sophie not really interested would have drunk it anyway). Took time to recover from our hangovers by lazing on the beach.

Visited the nitrate ghost towns of Humberstone and Santa Laura. Saw the geoglyphs (symbols scraped onto the mountain sides thousands of years ago). Some of them had a religious significance but others such as the ones showing groups of Llamas are thought to have been a kind of shop sign!

Visited some more thermal springs but these ones had caves to swim into. They were very dark which meant you had to feel your way through them. Unfortunately Billy mistook a rather large man for the cave wall! Needless to say we didn´t stay very long!

For photos - http://picasaweb.google.com/trevallion74/Iquique

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billyandsophie on May 20, 2008 from Iquique, Chile

from the travel blog: South America

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