What else can you do in Iquique in early spring when the beach is still cold? Once you have visited Humberstone I asked the taxi to drop me off at Paseo Baquedano. It was already dark but it doesn't matter because I think the lights make it nicer than it really is. The northern side has many fancy restaurants (but overpriced), the clock tower/fountain combo (Torre de Reloj) which attracts a large group of Pokemon Go players for some reason, the pagoda and the teatro Tetro Municipal. They look recently polished. The further south you go the emptier it gets. There are still a few bars, one especially popular, but the building facades are also more run down. A few stand out as extravagant with balcony and columns but there are many generic ones.

It's a fancy pedestrian hangout but in no way wordly unique and I can't even see this being attached to the saltpeter WHS outside of town. Was definitely nice and worth a visit though.