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- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
Potosi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Potosi, Bolivia
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 ...
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 ...
Going high places
... your breath. There was a few nice cafes around though and I booked my tour for the real attraction of the city, the mine tour. Potosi used to be an incredibly wealthy mining town, the best silver mine in the world I think, until it ran out of silver. ...
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 ...
Hell - or the mines of Potosi
... -miners together with 5 other courageous people. We had been provided with "protection" clothes and then we could buy dynamite (I think Bolivia is the only country in which that is possible) and drinks in order to hand them over to the miners. Afterwards ...
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 ...
6088 metrow, no air and very, very cold
Tym razem zaszalalem i wykupilem 'tour' w agencji. Kosztowalo mnie to chyba 700 bolivianos czy cos niecale 100 euro. W tym mielismy podwozke, przewodnika, ciuchy i nocleg w schronisku (ktory chyba jest za darmo zreszta). Gora polozona jest rzut beretem ...
Top of the Heap
05-10-23 Feeling a little worse for wear I headed off on my 3 day climb of Huanya Potosi. Maybe it was the spiked drinks from the night before. Victems often claim that Rawhypnol cuts the arse off you. But I´d paid my money so I was going to give the ...
Bolivia 3 of 3 - Potosí
... money. Also, the processing facility dumps its polluted water into the town stream, which eventually meets up with Bolivia's main river. Bull and I agreed that the human systems built and perpetuated are unbelievably massive and have an unbelievable ...
Question d'argent
... entre la Bolivie et l'Espagne, et tout de même continuer d'extraire le précieux métal. Aux dires des Boliviens, Potosi était un centre économique de luxe, dont les proportions démographiques ont même déjà dépassé Londres et Paris. ...
Cerro Rico con Jesus y Julio y Greengo Tours
I survived! It was brilliant, was on a complete natural high for hours after finishing the tour, un experience fantastico! - I am really glad Al persuaded me to go, and I have already had the "I told you so" WE were collected just after 9 by a Greengo ...
Sophisticated Sucre and Poor Potosi
... until we went off to the bus station to head to Tupiza, the buses were full tilll the 7th of October, so we decided to go to Potosi ( where the famous mines are and then get bus from there) So we got to Potosi at 8pm ( there is nothing to do other ...
Potosi
... of dynamite and made a massive explosion sending a cloud of dust into the air and a shock wave over to us, only in Bolivia could this happen. After the explosions we returned to the hostel and got showers before our taxies arrived at 7pm to take us ...
The Devil´s Miner - Part 1
... saw a documentary called "The Devil´s Miner". It told the story of Brasilio Vargas, a 14 year boy who worked in the mines of Potosi. After his father passed away, he was forced to be the man of the house caring for his mother and 12 year old ...
Put-put-put-Potosi
... us were white (Wonder-like) bread slices with a piece of cheese and an artichoke heart. That pretty much sums up our time in Potosi. Up next a great ride through the rough hinterlands of Bolivia...stay tuned... ...
Carnaval de los Mineros
... me that she liked my hair, so we got to talking about that. Apparently, women there in Sucre, and probably other places in Bolivia, sell their hair for 50 Bolivianos, the equivalent of less than $10. I thought that if I were to sell my hair, ...
Potosi
... then in a glass coffin followed by another few gods probably of andean culture. We fair gringos were more like the main attraction.. Potosi was freezing cold all the time and the air was extremely dry. As it is on a hill, everyone switches their ...
Die hoechste Stadt der Welt
... eingepackt. Auserdem bin ich hier auch nicht zum Sonnenbaden hergekommen, sondern ich will mir die Silberminen von Potosi anschauen. Und das ist, wie sich schnell herausstellt, ein ziemlich sportliches Unterfangen. Zunaechst wird man naemlich erst ...
Getting High!
... hours, expecting relative comfort as we booked the most expensive seats. Armed with more Subway for the journey, we quickly realised buses in Bolivia are are world apart from buses in Argentina! We took the last two seats one row from the back of the bus. ...
Puking in Potosi
... his for a change! Surprisingly both our meals and the water only cost us 30p (but I think they made a mistake as even Bolivia isn’t that cheap!). However it was a good thing that it was cheap as Steve spent the entire night sitting on ...
A Mining Adventure
... and I decided to spend the afternoon relaxing at the hostel and trying to acclimatise. On Easter Monday (which isn't a public holiday in Bolivia) I got up early for breakfast and then left with a number of people from the hostel for a tour of the Cero ...
Down the mine
... only) reason that it is a tourist town is because of the silver mines which have been central to the rise and fall of Bolivia. I went on a mine tour stopping first at the refinery, where they clearly have no concept of health and safety as a guy ...
City and mines
... it!!! I wouldn´t do it another time in my life. and the miners who work in these conditions every day under a temperature of 40 degrees. Apart from that we felt quite ill in Potosi and enjoy a day and a half resting in our hostel room. great fun! ...
going underground!!!!
... , an old bus and an unpaved and very narrow road made me really scared, happily i´m still alive!!!! we got to Potosi around 4pm, checked-in at a very nice hostel called Koala Den, finally i took a really hot shower!!! then off for dinner ...
Crash
... aisle and the driver had his wife and kids riding up front with him. We were comfortable in our shared goal of reaching Potosi and the atmosphere was calm and sleepy. The 6-hour journey rolls by and just as I'm looking at my watch and thinking ...
Voyage en enfer dans la mine de Potosi
... plus au temps des espagnol durant lequel les mineurs esclaves travaillaient par roulement de 12h pendant 4 mois sans sortir. A la sortie on leur bandait les yeux pour éviter les brulures. A cette époque, les rues de Potosi étaient pavées en argent. ...