PYRAMID POWER

While waiting for our flight to Puerto Varas, Chile from Punta Arenas, Chile, we visited the cemetery. They say you can't really understand a culture until you see where they bury their dead, and in the case of the cemetery of Punta Arenas, this edict certainly rings true. The City Cemetery was opened in 1894 and features a giant stone portico donated by Sara Braun in 1919. Inside this necropolis lies a veritable miniature city, with avenues that connect the magnificent tombs of the region's founding families, settlers, and civic workers and a rather solemn tomb where lie the remains of the last Selk'nam Indians of Tierra del Fuego.This is a photo of a pyramid that was built in the early 1900's. Many of the wealthy had very ornate mausoleums to assure there place in the memory of everyone that came to visit.