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Potosi Slideshow
Potosi
Travel Blogs from Potosi, Bolivia
The Potosi mines and in the footsteps of dinosaurs
This is a top pick! ... the states but it was an unimpressive ruin. Sucre is an unprepossessing place too, despite being the official capital of Bolivia, except for the dinosaur footprints that have been found in a cement quarry nearby. The footsteps were laid down in the ...
The mine that created the wealth of Europe
This is a top pick! ... profited from this richness and although the mine is still opened today and operated by a cooperative of miners, they have bled dry Bolivia who is now one of the poorest countries in the world. The Bolivians gave the soul of their earth along with ...
Dynamite
This is a top pick! Blurb, explosives, shaky video and blurred phots to follow of pidgeandpies real life mine ...
Highest City in the World
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
Fade into Bolivian
This is a top pick! ... entered the mine my thoughts turned to the West Virginia coal miners who were presumably working under strict OSHA guidelines. Does Bolivia have OSHA? I didn't think so. The mine itself is an endless series of tunnels and galleries that reminds me ...
Chutillos Festival
This is a top pick! Although every day in Bolivia has a fiesta, Ch`utillos in Potosì is one of the biggest and most colourful, and I was lucky enough to get to take part in the fiesta. Warming Up For Ch`utillos The Tuesday before Ch`utillos weekend is the Fiesta of San ...
Living in Potosì
This is a top pick! ... was dead, so we went to Chivaz, Pedro`s favourite bar, which is pretty good, and plays music that I know. Things I`ve Learned * En Bolivia, ellos toman hasta morir (they drink until they die) * Not to go into the office on weekends if I don`t want to ...
The Oddest Place for a Job Interview
This is a top pick! ... being bagged, they go to Chile to leave on a ship for some foreign country to make things from and then sell back to Bolivia. We also saw a black river and lake behind some houses near the refinery. All the waste just goes straight into the water system ...
Sucre - Potosi
This is a top pick! ... hour round trip, you expect something special. I did and was consequently disappointed to find the same stuff you get throughout Bolivia, only more expensive. Despite this and the other set backs, I left Sucre with a positive opinion of the place. Our ...
Trekking and Tourist Attractions
This is a top pick! I thought I was going to have a nice relaxing weekend after my first week (or 4 days) of work in over 7 months, but no, I was to head off on a 2 day trek, climbing up to 5,000m. Kari Kari Two Irish sisters, Ails and Kim, booked a two day trek to Kari ...
Tarapaya and Mondragon
This is a top pick! ... sat and looked out at the view. It was amazing and I was sitting in such tranquility, away from all the tourist attractions of Bolivia. It was a little piece of paradise that I just wanted to stay in, but we had to head back to Miraflores before the ...
Chau Potosì
This is a top pick! I was supposed to be leaving for a 2 - 3 week vacation to Argentina and Paraguay. But things always change, and it`s interesting to see how quickly things can change. I always have too many plans in my head at one time so I supposed I`m never really ...
Hi Ho Hi Ho, Its off to work we go
This is a top pick! ... fare (Eur16) settled, we took a taxi into Potosi to spend a couple of days in what is allegedly the worlds highest city. Potosi was also at one stage amongst the worlds richest cities thanks to it's rich deposits of silver, and the Spanish mines built ...
Out of sorts!
... , although they do not mine for silver, there are still deaths whilst mining for other minerals. The wealth accrued from Potosi underwrote the spanish economy for at least 2 centuries and was said to have helped finance the industrial revolution. ...
Voyage vers Potosi
... en panne. Route longue (7h) et désagréable mais bien moins dangereuse que celle de Tarija. On arrive sans encombre à Potosi vers 17h. Nous posons nos affaires au Residencial Felcar (2.5€ la nuit !) et partons visiter. Cette ville est très ...
Special guests at Pacha Mama´s big do!!
... USA´s dependence on the drug has created a massive campaign to destroy the coca plantations and to have its growth deemed illegal. Bolivia, however, has rejected such pressure as the place of the coca leaf in today´s society and in its history is still ...
Viste des mines
... . Les rues en pentes de la ville drainent beaucoup d eau et en marchant vers l hotel, il faut traverser a guee les rues... Potosi est connu pour ces mines et son "Cerro Rico" (colline riche) qui est exploite depuis 4 siecles. Les espagnols, durant deus ...
Potosi mining tour
... Molly coddled lives. From potosi I visited sucre which was only three hours down the road. Sucre is the shared capital of Bolivia. It was originally the capital back in the day, but because of La Paz being the business centre they gave it to ...
Down the Mines
At 4,200 metres Potosi is the highest city in the world and in the 17th century was bigger than Madrid and most other European cities. The reason for this was the silver mines of Cerro Rico (rich mountain) which at one time accounted for half the world's ...
Down them Mines and at Altitude!!
Now guys, firstly I must start this entry by saying that since we left for South America upon entering Bolivia was the first time we had been exposed to extreme poverty and to be honest a real taste to what travelling is all about. Over populated small ...
The silver mountain
... to too great an extent, and includes many policies that are seen as discouraging economic progress and foreign investment, both of which Bolivia needs badly (too much detail to go into here). That said, this is the view from Sucre, a relatively ...
Potosi - riches plundered past & present
... suprise that the result was a bit of a blur... although he recovered a bit to capture the resulting dust cloud. Potosi and Bolivia in general is an incredibly cheap place to holiday in. Our evening meal that evening, complete with drinks and followed ...
Mines + coca + alcohol + dynamite = Great time
... salesman selling natural remedies for constipation. Very wierd. Once in Sucre had a lovely meal at a french resteraunt making the end to a good day in Bolivia. ...
We climbed one of Bolivia's 6000er!!!
We climbed one of Bolivia's 6000er, the Huayna Potosi (6.088m, 19.974ft). In the morning of the 3. day of our climbing tour we reached the summit of the Huayna Potosi at 6:43. To climb up to the summit we had to get up at midnight (after a aweful ...
Mining in Potosi
... once you got used to it! We were staying in the Koala Den which was quite nice, certainly the best showers that we have had in Bolivia thus far! As we turned up on Sunday, nothing seemed to be open! It seems to be a constant battle in this country that ...
The Silver Mines
... nbsp;Aswell as being famous for its silver mine it also the highest city in the world at 4,000 m above see level. Potosi was founded by the Spanish in 1545 and it was them who began mining the Mirador mountain. Now the Bolivians are ...
Going deeper underground
Hola one and all, So our first real city stop in Bolivia was in the worlds highest city no less at some 4000+ meters. An altitude you can really feel when lugging a rucsack up a hill and trying to avoid water balloons at the same time. Unfortunately there ...
Another stop on the bumpy road to Uyuni
... was the worst day of driving, maybe because the altitude was starting to take effect or maybe because of the bumpy roads of Bolivia roads seemed to last forever. Luke our driver kept reminding us that all the pain was because the Uyuni Salt Flats ...
Dynamite and the mines!
Following 12 hours on the coldest night bus in the world we finally arrived in Potosi ready to visit the famous silver mines. After wondering the chilly streets aimlessly for an hour looking for anything open, we finally found a ...
Potosi a small mining villiage
Okay, left Sucre and its chololate, and have arrived in potosi wit its silver. Much better. Potosi is also the highest citie in the world, nice little villiage, but a little cold. We booked our mining trip also with one English guy called Nick, met ...