Today was a day largely for catching up with friends, but
first there was a museum to see.
The Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (obviously enough,
the Chilean Museum of pre-Columbian Art) is a fabulous collection of artefacts
from throughout Latin America, with a reasonably sized emphasis on Chile, but
certainly from plenty of other areas as well.
Lots of wonderful pottery, statues, textiles and jewellery to see,
especially the textiles. In particular,
there was an exhibition on textiles associated with death (for example, in
which bodies were wrapped for burial after mummification). Sadly, it wasn’t permitted to take photos of the
textiles – they were stunning.
Afterwards, we met up with a friend of Andrea’s from Perth,
who is here in Santiago with her husband for 6 months. We lunched and then wandered around. There’s lots of public works going on in the
city, with a resulting increase in the number of trip hazards. You certainly have to keep an eye on where
you’re going rather than being eyes-up looking at buildings etc.
After lunch, it was time to get ready for dinner. We were to meet up with my old colleagues
Walter and Juan Carlos for dinner at a restaurant in Providencia(?) called
Boca. It was great to see them again, as
well as meet Juan Carlos’ wife for the first time. A lovely evening ended with us falling into
bed at around 1AM!
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