Showing posts with label Arica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arica. Show all posts

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Mummy Museum

 21 November 2019

Today we drove from Arica in Chile through the desert to visit a marvellous museum, Museo Arqueologico San Miguel de Azapa, which holds some of the oldest mummies in the world. We passed a few interesting sites along the way but the Mummies were the highlight of my day.

There were many instances of political and protest slogans in Arica

A Sports Field

These representations of Llamas on the hillside are said to be 1,000 yea
rs old!!!

There were some arable areas along the way...

and a lot of desert


There were many displays that didn't feature Mummies



Mummies

Mummy


Back in town we visited a viewpoint...

...and passed the local beach on the way back to the ship







Praying in Chile


We visited two contrasting churches in Arica, Chile. The Cathedral of San Marco designed by Gustave Eiffel was prefabricated, shipped to Chile and put together on site. The small church in the artisans' village was brightly painted in typical fashion.

Eiffel's Church




Church in the Artisan's Village



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