From Uyuni, we headed to Potosí on the bus, which was interesting. Niall unfortunately ate some soup at a little local place on the way. Ten minutes later, "Stop the bus!" and he was off like a flash hurling his guts up on the roadside. A welcome warning about Bolivian food...watch out! Potosí is a bit of an odd place. It was once very prosperous, thanks to the mountain it is built around that housed a wealth of silver ready to be mined, not by the indigenous people, but by the Spanish. The indigenous people left the mountain alone, proclaiming it a sacred place, linked to ´Pachamama´ or Mother Earth. Then the Spanish arrived and mined the life out of the place. It is still a working mine, but there is next to nothing left there,
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