On Tuesday we had to change buses for our first time. Stopped in Calama and the b****** dropped us off in the wrong place. However we didn't find out until 16:10 and our bus was at 16:15. Flagged a taxi down and he sped across town. Got to the bus terminal but shouldn't have worried. This i Latin America time! Back on the bus and after a bit of a hairy cliff top bus journey, with some soft core porn on the TV, we arrived in Iquique at 22:15. Checked into the backpackers hostel. A different little place. After a rooky mistake the boys were split and Chris had the miss fortune of being by himself with all femals. s***ter. The lads were starving having not eaten all day so went out hunting for an Arches. Failing to find an open one we went to a sandwhich place and stuffed ourselves. Thoroughly spent it was bed time!

Up early on the Wednesday and marched about 30 blocks to the post office. After that we went to a duty free mall. Not really splashing the big bucks the lads stocked up on memory. Camera memory, USB memory all sorts of memory. With enough memory to store their photos on for the rest of their lives (and having looked around 240 acres of shops) the lads headed off to suprise suprise more shops. Got our usual security guard welcome in the super market (dickheads) and stocked up on the batteries. Big day. Had a nice coastal walk and saw some dogs - dogging. Always entertaining although not when she doesn't want to put out and trying to use us as a shield. Different. After sorting some stuff out at base camp and getting to know the knew Rover we went out to the main plaza for a meal. Family pizzas all round and we were appraoched by mentalists left right and center. all harmless though. We were also serenaded by a guitar which was a little gay. Nice meal though and afterwards Iquique was pretty much done! Some chill time at the hostel and bed! Peru is on all our minds and we're gearing up to do it right! Nosotros no podemos esperar el hogar de los incas!