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We eventually made it back to Spain the other day, where we visited the ‘’Muelle de las Carabelas’’, which is a museum in Palos de la Frontera. Its most prominent exhibits are replicas of Christopher Columbus's boats for his first voyage to the Americas, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. I remember seeing drawings and exhibits of little ships inside the museum, and 2 huge statues of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the monarchs who sponsored Columbus’s voyage.

The real-size ships replicas were the thing that I liked the most in the museum. There were even replicas of pre-Columbian civilizations on the shores of the pond in which the ships were displayed. There were statues of Amerindians and little huts filled with crops and huge iguanas everywhere.

After we left the museum we visited a nearby botanical garden, in which I saw water lilies and cacti for the first time in my life, and we also checked out a ship dockyard down by the harbor at my request. There was that something about the ships that really impressed me.Read more