Universidad Austral de Chile

Friday, it was Katy's turn to leave us on the taxi to Temuco to catch her flight back to the USA. She isn't graduating this year like Chiara and Hannah, but had to get back in time to begin a new job. The Pucón English class especially will miss her good company at the next language lunch. We wish her buena suerte!

We'd planned to visit the Museum of Modern Art in the old brewery building at the Universidad Austral de Chile on the Island Teja across the river from the hotel, but it was being remodeled, so we toured two other museums on the campus instead.

The Historical and Anthropological Museum is located in a house built in 1860 next door to the old brewery. It contains collections of antiques, pre-Hispanic pottery, Mapuche silver jewelery and gives an idea of how the family lived day-to-day in the house a century ago. From there we ran to the Museum of Exploration next door devoted to the early naturalists of Chile who collected specimens in the wilderness and established scientific networks with the scholars of Europe.

In another section of the campus is the Botanical Garden.

A rainforest succulent.

Henry and Bobbi Jo pose for comparison.

Joslyn and Cate stroll among the autumn leaves.

Then we went back to our hotel to shower and decide what we wanted to do that evening. In the end we shopped for souvenirs and had dinner at a local restaurant.