The reason this will be cursory and brief is firstly that it has been a while, and secondly because I am horribly ill and have consumed a grand total of one solid piece of food (which was chundered up a few hours ago) in about 48 hours. My tummy is not happy with me. So Bolivia, which is infinitely less polished than Peru (but after nearly two centuries of military dictatorship, who can blame them?) was where I visited the world´s biggest salt flat, the world´s highest city, hooray. I also went into a mine that killed over 8 million African slaves, knee deep in mud that contained the piss of thousands of sweaty underpaid labourers. They worship the devil in the mines, because he keeps them safe underground. They light cigarettes and put them in
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