Down t'pit in Potosi
December 18th 2008 Next stop Potosi.
You're supposed to gasp for breath getting into Potosi, being as at over 4,000m in altitude, it is the worlds highest city. However, by this time I was pretty well acclimatised, and to be perfectly honest I felt fine. Which is good news, as I think going down the mine might not have been quite so easy if suffering from altitude sickness.
Ah the mines. The reason I was in
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