A very quiet day. We ate breakfast in the camping area. There were cold showers in the amenity block. We walked a few blocks into town and asked people where a laundry was. Today was a work day but the place was still very quiet. We found the laundrette which was a private house and dropped it off. It will be ready by midday tomorrow. It is so warm here so we were glad of the shade of the trees at the campsite. A few admin type jobs were done, like paying bil...

It was time to leave the relative luxury of our seaside cabana and head back up to the desert. Iquique has expanded a lot since we first visited and finding the way out was a nightmare. Not a single sign. Big roads turned in to dead ends or narrow tracks and we were forced to do a couple of difficult three point turns – not easy as the vehicle has poor rear view. Then we saw a lorry loaded with huge tyres for a mining truck so we guessed that would be he...