In the hostel...

we met a really nice American Lady who told us about all her travels, she like started out in Argentina a couple month ago and worked her way up through whole Chile, mostly through hitchhiking, crazy. She told us the next day she wanted to go on and visit the gigante de Atacama, a great big drawing made in the ancient times out at the desert. We spontanously decided to go with her and as soon as the new day started Lucie, Mara and me were off to the desert. The gigante is really pretty big and in the middle of the desert in the total silence.
After being out there we enjoyed a nice lunch in a very little town, think it was called Huara or something similar and then or ways splitt again Mara went to Arica and we hitched to Humblestone. It was actually pretty easy to get a car to stopp and take us :D Humblestone is an old Salpeter town,
where you can go around and visit all the old buildings and production places, which was really interesting, especially seeing how the people lived, we read before in our lonely planet that the people working there were kind of bounded to the area and the boss from the factory also owned the city and paid the people in special money which they could only use in the city and so he kind of got all the money back and non of his workers could leave him because they didn´t have real money.
The time came that we felt like no more walking and we left and stopped another car at the street which took us back to Iquique.
The next morning then we catched a bus to Arica. The funny part was we were waiting for it and it was late and then when it was there we didn´t know that it was our one, because it said Atacama Vip as company and we booked Pullman, but apparently they are working together but nobody told us, so we got it like last minute, when they called out our seat numbers :D But anyways it was a great ride, about 10 minutes into the ride the guy came up to us and asked if we would like to move downstairs to the more comftable cama seats, because he wanted to start cleaning the upstairs, so we said why not and really enjoyed the next 5 hours in the bus :D
Ok time for a second breakfast, I will continue later ;)