Buenas, I just arrived from an easy seven hour bus ride over the altiplano at Potosi, a UNESCO world heritage city and once South America´s richest city. It is still The Worlds´Highest City and you know this to be true just by walking a tiny bit too fast, because your lungs stop functioning from the lack of oxygen. So far the city looks great but it is nightime on a friday so sightseeing starts tomorrow. I am staying at the Koala Den which granted, smacks of tourists, but is clean, warm, cheap, desayuno incuje, and in the middle of town. I am here mainly to go into the mine on Cerro Rico, or rich hill, where the silver mining industry started all those years ago, fuelled by african slaves, pushed by conquistadores, and now worked mainly
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