After Valle de Elqui I continued on with my travel partner Andrea to a little fishing village called Punta del Choro. We were really the only tourist there. Off the coast of Punta del Choro in a National Park where dolphins, penguins, sea lions, and blue-footed boobies live.
After that, I left Andrea as she headed back to Santiago, and I continued much further north into the Atacama to the Chilean port city of Iquique.
About 40 kilometres outside of Iquique in the middle of the desert is a deserted ghost town called Humberstone. Humberstone at one point was of major importance to Chile as one of the leading mines for nitrates. It had such money it attracted international theater stars to perform there. After artificial fertilizer became cheaper to manufacture Humberstone went broke and all its inhabitants left for green pastures.
Finally I ended my time in the border city of Arica. One of northern Chile's nicer cities Arica was a charming place to relax before heading into the new adventures of Perú.
Hey, Bri - Mrs. Braun here. Your mom told me about your blog. Wow - I love it, and love to read about your life now. Thanks for posting this. I especially liked the picture of the school chairs stacked up as part of the protest against Chilean education. When you come back, you'll be really disappointed/dismayed with what we do here in the USA when our government does something we all hate. Which is to say, we do nothing. And then vote Republican.
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