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Published: June 23rd 2017
Balcony
Dave on our balcony with Punta arenas in background Geo: -53.1548, -70.9113
Punta arenas claims to be the Southern most city in South America, the end of the world. It is a quaint city of 127,000 inhabitants. It takes 4 hours by air to get Santiago it takes days to get there driving, because you have to take boats, fairies, and roads. There industry includes fishing mining for copper, and tourism. They cannot grow fruits and vegetables so they import them all making them very expensive. The city has 3 universities
We actually started today with sunshine, but it faded quickly. We had a 3 hour city tour this morning. Saw the downtown area where there was a market, city center with huge trees, and a large statue of Magellan. We drove to one of the high points to view the city from above. We stopped at the beautiful local cemetery which the guide compared to Recoleta in Buenos Aries. We went to a museum of local artifacts and then back to ship. Of course on the way we walked through the vendors. I bought a piece of blue lapis, the gem of Chile.
Saw whales tonight!! Got to sit by the window during dinner.
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