Ready, Steady Cook Bolivian Style

---

After La Paz, we have now travelled down to Potosi, a mining town in the South of the country. Supposedly the Spanish took so much Silver out of the mountain here that they could build a bridge to Spain with it. What they also tell you is that you could build a bridge to Spain and back again with the bones of all the people who have died here as well. As the working life expectancy is only 10 years, I decided to see what all the fuss was about and do a tour of the mine. As Nadine wasn´t overjoyed at the prospect of crawling on her hands and knees through the middle of the mountain she stayed in the hotel to buff her toenails.

Before I entered the mine, we were treated to a lesson in Bolivian Culinary and if Jamie Oliver was Bolivian, this is what his Roast Chicken recipe would go like:

Travel to Tesco (or Bolivian Equivalent) and buy the following ingredients:

1 x 10lb Chicken (Head and everything still attached)
1 x bag of Coca leaves
3 packs of high strength bolivian cigarettes (7p per pack)
1 ltr of alcohol (96%)
1 x Fuse
1 x detonator
1 bag of ammonium Nitrate
3 x sticks of dynamite

Preperation: (Allow 10 minutes preperation, 20 seconds cooking)

First take three sticks of dynamite, and insert the detonator and fuse. then take the dynamite and place them into the bag of Ammonium Nitrate. Next, proceed to insert the explosives into the chicken and pull the fuse out of the rectum. Place the chicken at a safe distance of about thirty meters(!!!!), light the fuse, and then run like a small girl with a spider in her pants.
if followed correctly, this should ensure one holy explosion!!! But in the interests of Health and Safety,it is advised to cover either your eyes or your crotch to avoid any flying giblet related injuries!

With regards to the mine itself, it was fairly boring, but the $12 trip fee was worth the chicken on its own. Although I´m not sure if my travel insurance covers dynamite related injuries!!

God I love Bolivia!!!!

---

Photos

Dynamite!
Warning: Excessive consumption may cause laxative effects!

BFC
Colonel Sanders would be horrified

96% spirit
Nothing like a god swig of meths before playing with explosives!

Mine Entrance
If you look closely, the dark area around the door is the blood of six sacrificed llamas!

Comments

[Alex]

Dynamite chicken
Stu, Looks like your degree paid off. I am however not impressed by your lack of safety googles, now i'm sure this is an oversight on your behalf or were they blown off in the foghorn leghorn cooking session. I'm also not sure that a mouth is the safest place to store active explosives ....I will have to check the net. I have been very impressed with your travel journal thus far and enjoy reading and especially looking at the fantastic pictures it certainly beats working in Mansfield for a living. I look forward to the next installment of the trip and hope both you and Nads are as well as is possible. Speak soon Al