Travel to Iquique

In 2009 summer, I traveled to Iquique, this travel was very important an beautiful for me, because I traveled whit my girlfriend and my family, when arrived to Arturo Merino Benitez airport, my grandfather was waiting for us, and his cars battery ran out, that was funny, one guy charged the battery whit a "bridge".
In that summer we travel from Iquique to many places, for example, we visited Santa Laura’s office, this is an old miner office, located in “Pampa del Tamarugal” 23 kilometers to the east of Iquique city, is was amazing, that night we slept in my grandfather’s house in La Tirana, La Tirana is a little village, on the desert of the first region, but this village have the most important church of the north zone of Chile, on July 16^th , a thousand of people assist to the “day of the Tamarugal virgin”, this is a very important day to the catholic church.
The next morning we wake up early and we traveled to the Pica oasis, this is an osasis located in the desert! Two hours from Iquique by car, we swam on font of hot water, this water sprout from some volcanic sub-terrain caves.
Finally we traveled to Santiago by airplane and arrived two hours later, when I arrived to my house, I felt tired and slept all the day.