The bus took us out of the riot struck town at 7am and we luckily avioded the d blocks. Drove for over 3 hours through fantastic scenery high up in Bolivai to Potosi, once one of the richest cities in the world due to it´s mountains of gold, silver, and other minerals. did some shopping and checked out the local town getting our bearings. found a cafe selling Falafels yippee. then we all met up and went for a mine tour, which was really cool. we all got decked up in umpa lumpa overalls, bash hats, wellies etc and made our way to a little shop where we all purchased a mixed bag of coca leaves, weird cigarettes, biscuits and explosives. Yes thats right, TNT dynamite with fuse and igniter and bag of nitro glycerin. these
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