- Visit to the National Library and Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Santiago de Chile
- Browsing through a Chinese shopping center
- Take the night bus to Puerto Montt
We pack our rucksacks and deposit all luggage in the office of the Diamont Suites. Today we start by visiting the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, an impressive neo-classical building in the center of the city. In particular the lavishly decorated wood Sala Medina transports the visitor back in time.
A little further on, the real highlight of the day is waiting for us: that Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. The exquisite collection of pre-Columbian art such as pottery, masks, jewelry, clothes and embroidery from Central and South America is also wonderfully presented and everything is also labeled in English. While in the basement the main focus is on Chilean works of different epochs and peoples art from Mesoamerica and other, little-known, lost cultures can be found on the upper floor. It's really amazing what craft skills the Indians had developed here thousands of years ago. The best example of this is one Child mummy from northern Chile, which was mummified and buried 2000 years before the Egyptian kings. Thanks to the extremely dry climate and human preparation, the mummy has survived to this day.
It is already early afternoon and we satisfy our hunger with another Peruvian lunch. Get some cash at a bank before Niki has a Starbucks cafe again after a long time. In addition, it can be great watch the hustle and bustle in the alleys. As always, the alleys in Santiago are full of people and here too the majority have a smartphone, which is widely used. At the Plaza das Armas we take a look at the classicist one Cathedral Metropoliana.
in the Chinese shopping center women get their money's worth full of small shops, even if purchases are rare. We take another coffee break and read the travel guides about the upcoming stage in the Chilean Lake District.
