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Chile and Easter Island

More graffiti on buildings.. painted sideways

The museum is privately owned. The museum's goal is to be interactive and offer its visitors the experience of interacting with replicas of the ships that contributed to the discovery of the area, colonization of the territory, or have a special and historic heritage significance for the Magallanes Region of Chile. The replicas were built using traditional shipbuilding techniques.

Navigating the Calvo Fjord, a glacier filled alley of bobbing ice.

Ice so close we could almost reach out and touch it as we passed by.

Command in Chief Palace of La Armada. The Command Chief Palace of the Navy

Seeing Motu Kau Kau the Birdman swam around this pointed island or rock.

Can you imagine trying to climb up on Motu Nui to find an egg in the Birdman competition?

Graffiti art

We are visiting the Nao Victoria Museum to see a replica of one of Ferdinand Magellan's ships, complete with furniture and hardware.

Pukará de Quitor, declared a National Monument in 1982, is an ancient Inca fortress built in the 12th century, strategically placed on the side of a hill protected by a gorge over the river. Quitor was taken over by Spaniards in 1540. It was built with large and small stones kept together by mud used as mortar.

Surrounding the square are some historic buildings, including the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago, Central Post Office Building, Palacio de la Real Audiencia de Santiago, and the building that serves as the seat of local government for Santiago, There is always a group protesting something in this Plaza.

I loved this promotion for Puerto Natales on a sign walking around town.

Backside of Motu Nui, the larger of the 3 islands.

Magnificent Dickson Glacier in the background feeding into Grey Lake.

Protest demonstrations in the Plaza de Armas.

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