Day 20 - Chris - Today we stopped at the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, where we took a city tour including the cemetery and a couple of museums.

The cemetery was interesting - families buy plots of land and can then do what they want wit that space. Some large mausoleums belonging to wealthy families. Jose Menendez was one of three people that were key to the establishment of Punta Arenas as a thriving area (he was a major landowner and sheep farmer) In recent years it has been established that he was involved in the genocide of indigenous people that had lived in the area, but who did nt understand anyone's right town land or sheep. Subsequently, his mausoleum and his statue in the central square have been defaced during the demonstrations.

It was interesting to learn that Charles Darwing spent some years in this area aboard the Beagle, and made observations that later led to his Theory of Evolution.