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Potosi Slideshow
Potosi
Travel Blogs from Potosi, Bolivia
A day of firsts!
... Or should that be high? We´re in Potosi at the moment waiting for a bus to take us to Sucre (the other captial of Bolivia - La Paz gets the government, Sucre gets the judiciary) and a good opportunity for a quick catch-up. Potosi is quite a nice ...
Visiting the Devil's Miners (by KCT)
Potosí is claimed to be the highest city in the world at a nominal 4.090 m. It lies beneath the Cerro de Potosí which is referred to the Cerro Rico, meaning "rich mountain" as it is rich in minerals. Mine workings had been already done ...
Down to the mines
... up the hillside towards Cerro Rico (or rich mountain) which contains the largest silver and zinc mines in Bolivia and possibly the world. It was the silver from Potosi that financed the Spanish empire and, hard to believe, in 1600 it was a bigger city ...
Silver mines and dynamite
Dan - Stilll a bit behind, this happened on the 12th of Jan! Next stop in Bolivia was Potosí. Officially the highest city in the world at four thousand and >mumble mumble> feet high! The main reason for going though was because we´d read about ...
Overland and underground
... ! We booked ourselves onto a tour the next and just enjoyed the Sunday chilling out although we found it difficult to breathe as Potosi is the highest city in the world (4070 metres above sea level!!). We set off early the next morning and visited the ...
Devils, Dancing, and Debauchery
... the famed Potosì. However, the night before my departure from Sucre, I was made aware of the apparently little known fact that one of Bolivia`s greatest festivals would be taking place in Potosì in just two days and it was not to be missed. I had ...
Surviving the Potosi mines
... most profitable metal extracted today. The following day, I would be going on a tour of the working mine, another of Bolivia's weird and wonderful tourist attractions. Working conditions haven't changed much in the mine since it opened in 1546 and there ...
Sucre and Potosi
Sucre was a pleasure to arrive in. A contrast to the other cities in Bolivia with brilliant white buildings and very clean. The main tourist attraction in Sucre is the dinosaur footprints. To get there you have to take the very tacky Dino Bus so we ...
Down The Mine!
... me til Monday as all of the shops were closed on Easter Sunday. The closure wasn't for any religious reasons though: it was election day! In Bolivia it is mandatory to vote and if you don't you can be fined, don't get state benefits, get paid less by your ...
Memphis Potosi
... 16th May It was a seven hour journey to Potosi but probably one of the worst in South America yet. The roads in Bolivia are notoriously bad......just really dusty, bumpy, pothole filled roads. It just makes for an uncomfortable ride but the views out of ...
Down Into the Silver Mine
Highest city in the world? Depends on how you define city I suppose, but Potosi is certainly high at almost 16,000'. It sits at the base of the world's largest silver mine, which I visited one afternoon. Everyone in my group was given a hard hat with ...
Repos à Potosi
Nous consacrons cette journée au repos. Petit-déjeuner avec Gaëlle et Stéphane avant de leur dire au revoir. Nous les reverrons surement à Sucre. Le reste de la journée, nous nous baladons en ville et profitons de la bonne connexion internet ...
¨The Mouth of Hell¨
... some as young as 10, are currently working in the mines. But having seen that, I seem to have exhausted Potosi and i'm now heading further south to a town called Tupiza surrounded by desert canyons and gorges which sounds like good ...
Ground hog day in Potosi
... Mint museum to see the grand building and machines that used to make the coins for the rest of the world, ironically now all Bolivia's currency is made in Canada, France and Spain. Discovering the Potosi cinema was a treat, so we gathered ...
Highest heights to lowest depths of hell..
... , the cancers and cave ins and the money and why its all worth it in the end. How all the villages in the whole of bolivia, and parts of peru and even argentina, used to have to send percent of their male children their to work. how percent of ...
Potosí: I come from a mine down under
... but can’t be helped right now! --Sucre-- With only a week to carnival where we were going to Oruro (Bolivia) we decided to head to Sucre and then Potosi, two more Bolivian cities. We caught a flight (4 flights in 3 weeks oops) on Monday morning to ...
Buena Onda......
... ', mas meio enjoativo. No outro dia estava caminando pra variar e encontrei outro dos que eu tinha conhecido, mas este é de Potosi e resolveu me mostrar outra parte da cidade. Fomos num mirante bem legal da cidade e também caminhamos horrores. Depois ...
Deep in the mines
... it was not a pleasant experience. We are glad that we did it, but won't be doing it again in a hurry! Other than the mine, there was little else to keep us in Potosi, so we breathed in some fresh air and boarded a bus to the wild west of Bolivia- ...
Hi ho, Hi ho, Its down the mine we go!
So, we went to the bus station in La Paz and bought tickets to Potosi - the world´s highest city at 4100 meters, for 40 bolivianos each, which we thought was a bargain because everywhere else was askin for 80 bolivianos. However, we are not stupid and we ...
Finally in Potosi
... and other Spanish buildings had carved stonework so detailed I could only stare at it. And if I ever do go back to Bolivia, I'll go back to Potosi. It was Thanksgiving when I got there, and I was feeling kind of sad about being away from my family, one ...
Rosey from Potosi
Here I am in the highest city in the world - 4,828 m above sea level. Potosi was once one of the most important cities in all of South America as it's home to one of the riches silver mines anywhere in the world. Now it feels very much like ...
Working Hard To Make A Living
Probably one of my best experiences here in Bolivia was visiting the silver mines in Potosi. Potosi, back in its hey-day, was the largest and wealthiest city in Latin America by the end of the 18th century. Potosi was the primary source of silver to the ...
potosi
... here I´ve seen four: A teacher´s huelga in Peru which actually led to the death of protestors, a "peoples protest" in Southern Bolivia which blocked train tracks and our path South, a farmer´s protest in the plaza of the capital city of Sucre (by the ...
Silbrminen in Potosí
... Interesse. Momentan sind d Priise fuer Metall sehr hoech und somit au d Loehn hoecher: ca. CHF 300.--/Monet. De Minimallohn in Bolivia fuer en Agstellte (inere Fabrik z.B.) isch 400 Pesos, ca. CHF 70.-. Ja, han mich noed vertippt, und unzaehligi verdiened ...
Mines a beer
... saga) we met the miners for few pre party drinks, "Que es su nombre?" Martin questioned, we duly responded. "Tu gusta Bolivia?" "Si,Si" we enthusiastically replied. They beamed with pride. Moments later after a couple more sips of Cerveza, "Tu gusta ...
If we ever thought we had it tough - Potosi!
... like all hell back to the bus - just in time to avoid the explosion and cascading rubble and dust!!! Only in Bolivia!!! Anyway, on a lighter note we´re moving onto Sucre which is the official capital of Bolivia...even though La Paz would like ...
Potosi
... been mined. These companies have only recently had to dig huge waste pits nearby after Argentina realised the river flowing from Bolivia was becoming ridiculously polluted. These huge pits of waste have polluted the areas nearby, ...
What a wedding anniversary!
... to the mountain with for our 9:30 departure, all eager, buzzing and ready to get going. Except of course this is Bolivia and after meeting the guides, finalising payments, finding ice boots for everyone from various shops around La Paz, loading the vans, ...
Boredom in Potosi
... or 3pm and costs 20Bs. The taxi to to bus terminal was the standard 5Bs. Thus was I was not totally convinced on Bolivia, I mean based on my trip in this country so far, Salar de Uyuni aside, I was of the moind that most of it could be ...