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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
Walk the haunted streets of the world's best-preserved saltpeter boom town — a UNESCO World Heritage Site frozen in the 1930s. Private guiding unlocks the human stories behind the nitrate era that once fertilised the world.
Ascend from Pacific coast to 4,000 m altiplano in a single day — flamingo lagoons, a living Aymara village, and the smouldering cone of Volcán Isluga await. One of South America's most dramatic vertical journeys.
Hurtle down the world's largest urban sand dune on a board, with the Pacific glittering below — an adrenaline set-piece that is utterly unique to Iquique. A bucket-list pairing of desert and ocean in one frame.
Launch from the clifftop above the city and soar on world-class thermals above the Atacama coast — one of the planet's premier paragliding corridors — with the ocean, dunes and terracotta rooftops laid out beneath you.
Explore Iquique's gilded nitrate-era heritage — Georgian clock towers, pastel Georgiana mansions on Paseo Baquedano, and the legendary ironclad Corbeta Esmeralda — with a scholar-guide who brings the city's golden age vividly alive.
Journey deep into the Atacama to Pica — a lush, improbable oasis of lime groves, hot springs and colonial plazas hidden in one of Earth's driest landscapes. A sensory contrast that travellers call the most surprising moment of the entire voyage.
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