Currently in Valparaiso, about 2 hours outside of Santiago. The main attraction here is the abundance of murals and other outsider-art that cover the walls along cobbled streets that switch-back up the steep hills overlooking the port and town. This wall (above) was the work of just one eldely man who lived opposite. He took a shine to Ned and invited us inside his house to see other things he'd made, like a lamp made from an old kettle and an assortment of tin weather vanes. Murals are so popular here the town invited several big name Chilean artists to daub walls, and called the area 'Museo a Cielo Abierto' or open air museum.
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