Arica has a lovely downtown square and on one side is the San Marcos church. The church is famous because it was designed by Gustave Eiffel (the same guy who did the tower in Paris) and is a pre-fabricated building made entirely out of IRON! The pieces were created in France and then shipped to Chile and reassembled.
I took a tour out to nearby San Miquel to see the archaeological museum which contains the oldest mummies in the world – the Chinchorro mummies. These are way older than their Egyptian counterparts by thousands of years. One of the reasons that they are so well preserved is because Arica is by the Atacama desert – the driest desert in the world.
Next we headed out into the desert to see the Lluta geoglyphs. Most of the designs were depictions of animals, like llamas. Some people think that these pictures were actually messages to space aliens! This is total nonsense. If they were, what were they trying to say? “Hey ET, we've got llamas!”
Some of you reading this blog may think that I make a lot of fun about people being too old to travel, but here's the reality. When we returned to the ship, an ambulance was waiting for us. It wouldn't be last – in fact, in one port, there were actually two ambulances by the ship.
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