Sunday, July 22, 2007

Mas Picturas

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(Our group!!)

(One of the Liberators of Chile, General Bernardo O'Higgins. Born to an Irishman working for the Government of Spain and a Chilean woman, he is credited with starting the revolution to free Chile from Spain)

(current President of Chile)

(statue of Salvador Allende outside la Moneda)

(Donde Augosto, where we ate lunch in the Mercado Central)

(the old congress; made me feel right at home with the architecture in the style of the White House)

(map of Pueblos Originales - original people - in the museum of pre-colobian art)

(the court house in Santiago)

(the guards)

(changing of the guard outside the Presidential Palace "La Moneda")

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