Okay, so Iquique has lots of places to shop here.... which means that I am in heaven. Iquique is a port city and it happens to be basically the cheapest city in Chile. Everything here (or so I've been told) is basically cheaper than any other city in Chile because it's a port city and because of Zofri. Zofri, is a HUGE "mall." There are tons of stores just kind of crammed together, but everything is so cheap. For example, a bottle of Jack Daniels costs ummm $8. They have tons of electronic stores, too bad I'm not into electronics so I can't give you a comparision on prices. But it has to be cheaper because there is no TAX. The entire area of Zofri is duty free.... you can buy a Mercedes, a BMW, and all the other kinds of cars at Zofri, I bought boots & a jacket so far and I plan on buying some jewlery before I leave. Oh yeah, and the other thing that is different about Zofri, the stores are so tiny inside, but all the stuff they sell is on display in the window panes. To cut down on robbery I assume. So it's pretty cool to shop, it is the ultimate window shopping.
Lets see.... then there is the Mall of Americas. It is like our malls. The quality of clothes is better than that in Zofri. There are some clothing stores with decent clothes, but more of the clothing stores in Zofri are kind of cheap with poor quality clothes. (Not ALL but the majority). So if you want to buy clothes you go to the Mall of Los Americas or Ripley. Ripley is like the Chilean version of Kaufman's. And you can't go into Ripley without your Ripley card or you pay like double the price. (Thank GOD I have made some shop-a-holic friends that of course have a Ripley card)
And there are all kinds of small street vendors with local crafts and jewlery that are really neat to look at....
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