After the beach, we headed up to El Morro. Basically, the Morro is a big hill that is defensible and sort of was the last stand during the Peru/Bolivia and Chile war in 1880. So now, there is a Jesus statue and a little war museum.
Some of Arica from the top of the Morro.
War stuff at the museum.
I always pictured bayonets as smaller than that....
Our guide telling us about the demographic of soldiers in a picture.
Apparently there were many young teenage boys.
They also had some merc-type groups.
WWI cannon. The first with rifling. Also, the first to shoot a bullet-like ammunition. So, instead of a cannonball with powder behind it, the powder was included in the casing.
Little cannon.
Little cannon.
Big cannon.
Itty-bitty baby cannon.
I had to take a picture because it was so cute and little!
View of a shipping port. I like how all of the shipping containers look like colorful blocks :)
Apparently a lot of the merchandise is Bolivian, since Bolivia no longer has a port.
Little island turned into a port.
Apparently the guy who did the Eiffel Tower had two contracts in Arica. One was that cathedral.
Okay, I did a little Googling. This is the Church of San Marcos and was done by Gustave Eiffel's company as an all-metal prefabricated building made in France and shipped in pieces to Chile to be assembled on-site. (Thank you, Wikipedia lol)
Another view of Arica from the Morro.
Matt thought it would be funny to take a selfie with Jesus photobombing in the background :)
Our guide kindly took another family photo for us with Jesus.
Henlie fell asleep on the drive. It was an early nap (like 12:30pm Chile time, so 10:30am Peru time).
I was just glad we didn't have to get out of the car to see the 'glyphs.
Glyph stop #1. My favorites are the dragon-looking things on the right side :)
And Glyph stop #2.
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