Big breakfast

Mining tour is why I am here at Potosi

Visit to the miners market to buy gifts for the miners

Coca leaves

Local market

Lamb

Shoes are sold next to raw meat

Ore refinery plant

Everything is automatic

Silver

Silver

Miners sell whatever deposits they manage to collect here

Potosi at around 4000m is the worlds highest city

Miners chilling on coco leaves

Colonial style entrance

Walking into the 6 levels mine

Low ceilings and steep, muddy passageways

Mineral line

Hole to put dynamite to extract the minerals

El Tio, a diabolic figure that the miners make offerings to

Saying is that God may rule aboveground

But El Tio is in charge down below

Cooperative mines are owned by the miners themselves

The coca leaves help with fatigue, curbs hunger and lessen the effects of altitude

Once in a lifetime experience

Small wagon to transport the mineral

2 tons wagon

Going down to the 2nd level

Sliding down on our butt

Another level down to 3rd level

Noxious chemicals and gases

All work is done with primitive tools

No power, all done manually

Heading to the hot part inside the mine

Quite pretty

Miners normally die of silicosis pneumonia within 10 to 15 years of entering the mines

Miners are proud of their work in such tough conditions

The journey back to the entrance was very difficult!

Koala Den

Appetizer

Soup is quite yummy

Sky Room

First proper meal since arrived Bolivia

Chicken

City of Potosí, UNESCO #91

Torre de la Compania de Jesus

Catedral

Street vendor

Central Market

Iglesia de San Lorenzo de Carangas

Very detail façade

Houseware made from leaf

Not shortage of milk powder here

Cake

Old Bolivian woman

The city is a UNESCO World Heritage List

Mueso Santa Teresa

Iglesia Santa Teresa

Postcard picture

It was once one of the wealthiest and largest cites in the Americas

Iglesia Santo Domingo

Iglesia Santo Domingo

Narrow streets

Colonial mansions

Walking uphill is not easy @ 4000m

Alcaldia Potosi

Plaza 10 de Noviembra

Juzgados Potosi

Casa Real de la Moneda

Torre de la Compania de Jesus

Very detail façade

Plaza 6 de Agosto

Catedral

Local snack

Colegio Nacional Pichincha

Teatro Modesto Omiste

Alonso de Lbanez

Banco Central de Bolivia

Pasaje Boulevard

Colonial mansion

Very old lady

Many second hand van from Japan

Iglesia Le Merced

Iglesia de San Juan de Dios

Iglesia de San Francisco

Iglesia de San Francisco

PDA

Colorful colonial street

Pretty façade

Koala Den

Little girl carrying something

4 hours bus to Uyuni

Checked into a hostel at midnight