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Our journey today was to the beach community of Vina del Mar passing through many vineyards and wineries south of Santiago. We made a short stop at the commemorative park, which was closed following a large international music award ceremony. Next stop was for a tour of the Fonck Museum largely dedicated to the history and culture of Easter Island. After lunch with music at a beach restaurant, we moved on to tour Valparaiso, once a major seaport until the completion of the Panama Canal. The city suffered from the 2010 earthquake resulting in the condemnation of several large apartment buildings and visible cracks in many others. Our next stop was at the former residence of the Nobel Prize wining poet Pablo Neruda. His house sits high on the hillside overlooking the seaport and is a museum of his fanciful collection of art, etc. The surrounding area is an esoteric collection of houses, some expensive and some derelicts.
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