Potosi
November 17th 2006 Got to Potosi and stayed in a hostel called the Koala Den (nice). Booked the mine tour for the next morning. The South American Handbook said you should buy gifts for the miners like "beverages, coca leaves. or dynamite ." We went to the market and bought some.
The mine tour is an interesting form of tourism in that you are paying to see how awful someone´s life is. Of our group o
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