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- La Paz /Sucre
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- Boliviano (BOB)
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- 8,300,463
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Potosi Slideshow
Potosi
Travel Blogs from Potosi, Bolivia
Couple of boring days
... richest city in the world. The silver from the mines paid off Spains foreign debt and financed the extravagances of the empire, Potosi was once larger than Paris or London. The situation is somewhat different now but there are literally dozens of colonial ...
Potosi
... bus journey took us to Potosi, which is 1,300 metres higher than Sucre at 4,070 metres above sea level. While Potosi is a popular destination for travellers, it does not feel like a tourist town, with narrow streets bustling with local people. ...
Shmolivia
... say broad general stuff about a group of people but Sylvain and I have concluded that 1. Bolivians are generally pretty stupid and 2. Bolivia is a miserable country. We rode out of that town and with night just beginning to fall we found a small lake in ...
Potosi'
... appare decisamente affascinante... tutte strade in salita piene di gente vestita con mille colori... proprio come ti aspetti la Bolivia! i palazzi, tutti coloniali sembrano tutti il soggetto perfetto per una fotografia... l'aspetto ora e' un po' ...
Relaxing in the worlds highest city
After our tour to the amazing salt flats we decided to follow the other two guys from our group to Potosi, the highest city in the world at 4070 m. Potosi is a quite famous world heritage city which has sliver mines right next to it. We arrived on the ...
The air is getting thin!
... was a nice place and the rest of the time spent wandering around and relaxing after the 4 days salt flat excursion was well recieved. I might add though that Bolivia is cold, poor and dirty, with terrible transport. All part of the fun I suppose ...
A busy market
... forth as we went up and down hills (some gravol was definately needed for me!). But the scenery was great. We arrived in Potosi around 3 pm and after checking into our hotel and watching a bit of the Germany-Australia world cup game on the tv in the ...
Las minas
Visited one of the cooperative mines to give presents to the miners and check out the conditions they work in. ...
Huayna Potosí...6088m of Pain.
... ; Never did I imagine it would be so hard. Huyana Potosi sits 6088m (19,974ft) above sea level, 26km north of La Paz, Bolivia. It is one of the most famous Bolivian Peaks due to its beautiful snow capped peak. It is also considered one of ...
Mines and Blockades!!
... including the night we arrived due to the miners. The miners were blockading the city in protest as the president of Bolivia was after doubling their tax and they obviously did not agree (who would!). We spent our first day just roaming ...
Blown away by Bolivia.. literally!
Potosi has two accolades.. its the highest city in the world.. and the poorest in Bolivia. By Bolivian standards that is very poor. Potosi used to be the largest and wealthiest city in Bolivia in the 1500´s when large quantities of silver deposits ...
Bus trip from Uyuni (via Potosi) to Sucre
... from our tri, but I have to mention this. I know it sounds a bit like Schadenfreude, but actually this is daily life in Bolivia. It can happen to anyone at any time: They bought tickets for almost double our price. Than there bus broke down, only half an ...
When dinos roamed at Cal Orck'o
A few kilometres outside of Sucre is Cal Orck'o, the biggest paleantological site in the world. In 1994 some local limestone quarry and cement factory workers accidentally discovered the world's largest collection of dinosaur tracks there, and ...
Day 19!
We arrived in Potosi around 530 am feeling pretty average after the mountain biking onslaught the day before. Potosi is the highest city of its kind in the world. Today we had a chance to check out one of the local silver mines where working conditions ...
Potosi Mines
... to pack in quite a bit: 1 - Went to the Casa Real de la Moneda museum - prob the most famous museum in Bolivia - which was a mint back in the day. Got the old horse driven presses for coin making here. That was interesting alright and there was a ...
The dirty Spaniards
... mama(mother earth). If offerings are not given, it is said that the Tio gets angry and punishes them. Before arriving in Potosi, I had already made the conscious decision to help in some way shape or form. After trying to contact organisations on the ...
Evo, Evo, Evo .......
28th november 2009 25 kms from Challapata, by the river again Ventilla to here – 75 kms Today was a far more civilised kind of day, less of the up and more of the flat and the down. It began with glorious sunshine and clear blue skies, a relief ...
Not the nicest place we've ever visited...
... people. The journey to Potosi was uneventful once we were underway and the scenery was dry but impressive. On arriving in Potosi though, I think we reached a new low. Having previously thought that Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania qualified as the winner of the ...
Day 162 - Potosi (mine tour)
... priced but whatever) and a couple of litres of fizzy pop. Apparently there are NO restrictions on buying dynamite in Bolivia - or at least in Potosi - because children as young as 12 work in the mines so must be allowed to buy dynamite! Twisted ...
The Worst Experience So Far
... and so should really have known better. Unfortunately, at this stage, Jim and the bags must have been "clocked" by some of Potosi's more unsavoury inhabitants. As soon as we'd left once again, Jim was approached by someone who said they could help us ...
Buzzing around Bolivia
... weren't the public but riot police. Though I am not sure if that is better or worse...regardless I did feel pretty safe. Bolivia is definitely cheaper than Peru and by far the cheapest place I have been to since leaving Asia. Presumably that's why we ...
Dynamite and Bombs in Potosi Mines
... and relaxed on its balcony thinking about the strange and surreal landscapes and experiences the past four days had held for me in Bolivia. That evening Luke, Nick, Zuzana and l got take out pizza and sat on our beds watching the Thomas Crown Affair in ...
Feb 07, 2011
Si amas dinamita y plata, vas a Potosi
If dynamite and silver mines are your thing, then you can't go far wrong with a trip to the Bolivian mining town of Potosi. Before arriving there I expected it to be a very small town, but it turned out to be rather large with many different working ...
Vale un Potosí
... La Paz. There were some really nice buildings, legacy from the rich past of Potosí (see the "worth a Potosí" of Don Quixote). Potosi is famous for its mining industry (particularly silver) over five centuries. The city was so rich at some stage that it ...
Aermste Stadt Boliviens = Fussball-Bolivienmeister
So, endlich bin ich mal schneller im schreiben als reisen ;) bin naemlich noch gar net in potosí, warte hier gerade auf den bus...bin wieder soweit ganz fit und heute mitten in der nacht aufgestanden um gaaaaanz frueh die grenze zu ueberqueren - da muss ...
HSBC Wank
... sky rocket except 30BS or the equivalent of 2quid. This in trueness would have been enough to get me to Sucre (one of Bolivia's most major cities and home to the central government), the problem with that plan of action was that for some reason only ...
Working in the mines
Hola Arrived in Potasi after a nice short bus journey, only 5 hours!!! The hotel was quite nice although we were on the 4th Floor and what with the altitude it made climbing the stairs a lung bursting experiance. We started off exploring Potasi by ...
Huayna Potosi * Base Camp to High Camp*
Tak dneska zaciname nas vystup. Kratce po obede (dalo nam to praci se nenarvat) vyrazime z base camp 4.700m do High Campu cca 5.200m. Tahneme docela tezky batohy, macky, cepin, plastovy horolezecky boty, hadry, spacaky atd. Docela si maknem. Sotva ...