We survived the overnight bus trip and arrived on the Chilean coast early in the morning. The plan was to get off the bus at Valparaiso, where we had booked a hostel, but we were a bit dozey and actually ended up getting off the bus in Vina del Mar instead. So we made the most of our error, put our backpacks in storage and headed out to explore Vina del Mar. First stop was breakfast by the beach. Then onto a museum we had wanted to visit, the Museum of Archaeology. Out the front was an original Easter Island statue, about 2 metres high so just a small one. Inside there were many artefacts from the Easter Island tribes, pottery from all over South America, a mummified woman, lots of stuffed animals (including a 2
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