The Devil's Miners

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Potosi
June 2nd 2009

Published: June 18th 2009

Bolivia is the land of the "Worlds Highest ........". The world’s highest airport; The world’s highest ski-field (although it hasn’t actually had any snow for the last few years...); The world’s highest golf course and now the world’s highest city.......Welcome to Potosi - altitude 4,200 m.s.l.! We left mid afternoon the following day from Sucre, but not before my early morning stint a... Read Full Entry

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Christine Rodriguez

GlobetrekkerChic

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending” - Carl Bard 2008 has been a year of personal discovery and has given me the chance to re-write my story. Thus my story begins!!...To set the scene I am in my mid 30’s and come from Sydney, Australia. I am embarking on a year long career break to explore the world and see how much mischief I can get up to. I have since sold the house and all my worldly possessions; converted my frequent flyer miles to a RTW ticket and packed my bags The Philippines -... full info

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Getting ready to ignite

Charlottle - First Grade Miner in charge of this process

BOOM

Its a bit shakey. I scared myself stupid as it went of and nearly dropped the camera

Walking into the mines

Underground

Cerro Rico Mines

Me underground

Tio - The Devil

The miners pray to Tio to protect them and show them silver whilst they are underground

In the darkness they work

All day shovelling large rocks into a container in almost total darkness...Hard. Hard work

Here I am trying to give it a go...

Extracting the finer rocks

The dust in this section was suffocating. How they do this everyday is unbelievable

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