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A City of Lawyers
(Mar 08 '07)
When I arrived in Potosi, I was quite surprised to see that the town is dominated by lawyers. If you need legal help in Bolivia, Potosi is the place to be. I am thinking about completing my training ...
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From mines to mints
(May 23 '06)
We travelled by bus from Uyuni to "UNESCO World Heritage" Potosi, arriving some time in the afternoon. Having checked into our hotel & freshened up we headed off to explore the city. At an ...
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Potosi is a town of 120,000 ppl at an elevation of 4090m, which means it is still really really cold up here! Our hostel actually had heaters in ...
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Stayed at the Kaola Den, a fine hostel that also arranged our main activity for the day, a tour of the Cerro Rico Mine, the main purpose of my trip to Potosi. After a ...
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The main reason for visiting Potosi
is the mine that has been the main employer for hundreds of years. It was
originally a silver mine, but now it is mostly tin, ...
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Silver Mines
(May 12 '06)
We arrived to Potosi via private bus for 2 reasons: First of all, the public transit was on strike due to new taxes imposed on transit companies, and the second reason was because it was so dirt cheap ...
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Bleak Potosi & its silver mines
(Oct 25 '04)
"Our guide was a spoftly spoken Quechua descendend with the very traditional indian name of...Jacky"
25th October - Potosi. While La Paz takes the mantle for wolds highest Capital - Potosi is actually ...
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Mineville
(Nov 07 '06)
After the Santa Cruz flight episode we finally landed in Sucre a day later than expected. We had to cut down our time in Sucre and Potosi because of the few extra days in Santa Cruz.
Sucre itself ...
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Potosi
(Dec 04 '06)
Potosi was founded by the Spanish in the mid 16th century when they discovered indigenous mining activity there. The highest city of it´s size in the world at 4060m,it is dominated by Cerro Rico (rich ...
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Not for the claustrophobic!
(Feb 12 '07)
After a 6 hour bus journey from Uyuni we arrived in Potosi - the highest city in the world. The city of Potosi is centred around the working mine in the mountain overlooking it. 15,000 men from the ...
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The lonley planet opens with the words "Potosi shocks", but upon arriving at 4am by bus from Lima we were thinking more along the lines of "Potosi sucks!". It ...
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You don´t go to Potosi for any of the usual tourist attractions, there is no sunny beach, no ski resort blanketed in white Christmas lights, the food is mediocre, the business ...
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I headed into Potosi last night and got right to the silver mines this morning. my tour began at about 830 and the first thing we had to do was change into waterproof ...
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