Hola. Once again, there's plenty to update you on so here goes... From La Paz, we travelled to Potosi, formerly the richest city in South America which was exploited by the Spanish for its vast deposits of silver. The city, the world's highest at 4,060m, is a world heritage site but is now a pale shadow of its former self, as only local co-operatives continue to mine there, exploiting whatever seams remain. However, the city is a pleasure to walk around full of lovely buildings in a state of semi-dereliction and cobbled streets. A number of the group did a visit to one of the mines where they had to make offerings to the devil (that is who the miners worship/pray to), dress in huge orange jump-suits (they looked like graceless oompa-loompas), and got to blow
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