Diggin´Deep..The Potosi mines
November 4th 2009 Potosi was definitely the biggest culture shock of our trip. After a more than comfortable night in the Koala Den (plus fruit and eggs for breakfast, yum!) we took a tour out to the working mineral mines underneath the Cerro rico mountain. First stop was the miner´s market where we got to buy gifts for the miner´s..Like every good tourist we settled on a bunch of dynamite with extra detonators a
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