Back to the mainland

After leaving Antarctica, we spent a couple days in Punta Arenas. One of Edwardo's friends, Almendra, showed us around the city. She took us to a museum that was a old family mansion in the early 1900s before the Panama Canal was built when Punta Arenas was at its peak. In the basement, they had pieces of native artwork. Then we went to an old cementary where many famous families are buried.

She also treated us to a 5 course lunch at her Dad's restaurant. They offer native foods with a modern twist. We had garlic soup, an appetizer of goose, beaver, gnaco, and a ostrich like bird, then our main dishes were fettucini with crab, and chilean sea bass. Then for dessert it was the calafate (blueberry like berry in Patagonia) sauce with ice cream and chocolate mouse with sherbert. The lunch for the 3 of us was over $100. I told her that I eat better in Chile/Antarctica then I do in Boston. '

Picture from inside the mansion


This canoe belonged to one tribe of native inhabitants. Whole families would live in a canoe like this and they would hunt by diving deep to spear fish or catch other sea animals. Catching food like this would eliminate America's obesity problem.


this is the picture of some natives. Almendra's restaurants serves food they ate.




Picture from the cementary. Many famous ship captains, politicans, and business leaders are buried here