Potosi Mine

Potosi, the highest city in the world, and most famous for a giant hill full of silver, tin and very nasty chemicals. We payed an old miner to take us in for the day, show us around and put us to work. The next day, we started the tour with a ...

... which looked like a castle drawbridge but is still used to do for foot passengers. Were a bit hesitant to arrive back in Potosi after a few days ago and bus terminal brought back horrid memories but we quickly bought our bus tickets to leave for Le Paz ...

... and eight of us re-located to Koala Den Hostel the following morning which came with good recommendations. Good showers and good heat. Potosi is the worlds highest city (4060m - breathe in, breathe out, breathe in..) and a UNESCO site. The city was ...

... varieties of farmyard animals that were also on the bus! An interesting journey to say the least! We finally bounced our way into Potosi for about 4pm. We had already decided to book our bus for Tupiza whilst we were at the station. We knew there wasn ...

... a polishing and then painting of the black soles. Johns 10 year old boots look almost brand new afterwards. My first impressions Bolivia reminds me of some of the small towns that we visitd in China. Ladies sell almost everything by the market: ...

Potosi sits t 4100m in a barren windswept plain, and is the highest city in the world. The town is here because of the Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain), the richest source of silver that the world had ever known. The silver rush started in 1545, and the ...

... you have joined them, you cannot understand what it means.   Today I have visited the famous mine of Potosi in Bolivia.  Potosi has helped significantly to create the wealth of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries by supplying them with ...

... - they dump it in the river".  Spicy informed me.  (Another reason to always drink bottled water in Bolivia) The mining operations are run as a co-op, so the miners split all the profits from the extracted silver. & ...

Potosi was our second stop in Bolivia, we took a night bus from La Paz which we both expected be horrendous and it turned out to be one of the best buses we have taken! Although the bus was comfy we did not sleep so well and when we arrived at our chosen ...

After another memorable bolivian bus experience I am now in Potosi, mostly known for its mine and the tours you can do there. I have been doubting a lot about going in as small spaces and not very healthy gasses aren´t my cup of tea, but after all the ...

... told me to stand for a few photos holding it and then run was another one of "those moments" On comment on the bus from Potosi to Topizu - it was crap!!! Landslides stopping us for hours, 60 people of a 48 seater bus, windows that didnt open, a seat ...

Today I took a tour of the famous mine in Potosi that estimates say claimed at least 8 million lives over 3 centuries of Spanish Colonial rule. After signing a form with Koala Tours that says they are not responsible for accidents, injury, or death that ...

... barriers was maddeningly frustrating; and the landscape of the Cordillera Mochara was bleak and desolate. Welcome to southern Bolivia! Bolivia is one of South America's poorest countries and is plagued by political instability. Since independence in ...

... their coat of arms) but there was considerably more tin and less silver being mined.  Today, the mine is owned by Bolivia's National Mining Company (COMIBOL) but the actual miners are organized into cooperatives.  Typically indigenous workers ( ...

... in the world at just under 4000 meters.  The other one is in Peru.  They like extremes in Bolivia.  Originally Potosi was a small native settlement that mined the nearby Cerro Rico for silver.  Then the Spanish arrived.  It's ...

I'm in Potosi, Bolivia ... The Highest City in the World at 13,430 feet (4070 m). The history of Potosi is quite amazing despite the difficult living conditions like the cold and lack of oxygen associated with this altitude. Potosi was once THE largest ...

... leave you gasping for breath as you walk up and down the city's streets. The main thing to do in Potosi is a mine tour. Unfortunately, both Patty and I have fallen ill with almost unstoppable Diarrhea, so rather than checking out the tourist sights in ...

... , which was a little frustrating. All of the places we wanted to see were either closed, or pretty expensive (as I was leaving Bolivia that night, I didn't really want to change any more money than necessary), or could only be viewed on a 2 hour guided ...

... the quality of the ore. In some places in Spain today, something that is considered very good quality will be called a Potosi. Nowadays the miners mine for zinc or lead while all the time dreaming of a big strain of silver. About 10 years ago a crew ...

... be), gold and tin.  Even if exploited for 400 years, it is still one of the biggest mine in the world and certainly the highest.  Therefore, Potosi is the highest city in the world, at 4100m above sea level.  A miner can expect to earn ...