Day 19: We´re up by around 10am after a good sleep so, following a light breakfast, we head out to explore. We know pretty much nothing about Valdivia but after walking through the busy town centre we find a fish market, in fact you could smell it well before you turned the corner. Dozens of stalls are selling massive stacks of muscles, four feet long fish etc under a yellow canope by the river. From behind the stalls we can hear a strange gargling noise. On closer inspection we discover a group of fat, ill looking sea lions are propped up on concrete stands, obviously waiting for scraps of fish to be thrown to them. They were far closer than we saw in Peninsula Valdes, coughing, sneezing and spluttering right infront of us, their big cumbersome
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