This morning we thought we were doing a tour of one of the silver mines in Potosi, but it turned out they no longer mine silver and it was a zinc mine. On the way there, we stopped and bought dynamite for the miners who we would see on the tour. Our guide kitted us up with really hot yellow pants and jackets, hard hats and gumboots, then we headed into the mine. The tour was about 2 hours, and we spent it crawling under pipes, up and down ladders, through holes, and hunched over trying not to whack our heads on the walls! We didn’t actually see any miners doing anything resembling mining unfortunately, most of them were sitting chewing on cocoa leaves! They were more than happy to take our dynamite though, and weren’t
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