Potosi

13 01 2007

after spending the night in Uyuni, and with all the busses being full for the next 2 days we ended up in a jeep for the 6 hour ride to Potosi. Just what we wanted!

its a cool city tho. sitting at 4100m its one of the highest in the world. not too hard to get light headed here. Its funky too. hilly w tight little streets and cool markets.

The mine tour today was out of this world. walking thru the mine shafts, watching the miners work. working conditions really havent changed.

Rocks fell from the cieling and narrowly missed us as we were checking out the pnumatic drilling.

Check out the dynamite and ammonium nitrate we got to play with. $1.50 well spent