Potosi Travel Blogs

Its only a 3 hour bus journey from Sucre to Potosi (Bs15/£1.50$2.50), and it goes through some great scenery as the roads wind their way up to 4,700m, and to the world's highest city.  I certainly felt the altitude when I arrived, with every step almost leaving me out of breath!!  I chec…

Back in La Paz for a morning to buy supplies before continuing south to Potosi.  Woke up to find I´d made an ample meal for the local insects with about 25 bites down my left leg.  Itching to hell.  Went for food myself and the pancakes as good as ever in the Adventure Brewers. …

We knew it wasn´t going to be a typical tour when the first thing the guide said was "engineers evalutated this mine 11 years ago, and estimated that it would collapse from over-mining within 7 years. So basically it should have collapsed 4 years ago...lets hope it doesn´t collapse on u…

KBOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!! Well that isnt the sound dynamite makes but it is a hell of a bang! We are in the highest city in the world Potosi some 4800 metres above sea level! When i first stepped off the bus i was amazed how quickly your breathe was taken away and how thin the air actually …

Officially, Potosi is the highest city in the world with about 140,000 people at an elevation of just over 4,000m. Although when I was in Peru I stayed in Cerro de Pasco, another mining city with 30,000 people at an altitude of 4,300m, so I suppose it depends on what you call a city. The city of Po…

Headed back to Potosi for a couple of days before taking a deep breath and heading off to La Paz, the worlds highest capital city.

Map and some photos of my second trip around South America. Blogs coming soon! Argentina - Uruguay - Paraguay - Bolivia - Chile - Patagonia

Potosi is the world highest city and when you walk down town it is hard to walk because of the hight. Potosi has the silver mines that you can visit. You see the hard conditions the locals have to work. It is not strange they live only 35 years. Nowadays the young people do not want to work in…

Following Sucre I found myself in Potosi, a charming town with even more colonial buildings.  In fact the most notable thing about the town was that you could turn the corner and find another style of architecture, an interesting ramshackle house or an ornate church.  This was probably a …

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My friend and I traveled from La Paz to Tupiza in an attempt to reach the town of San Vicente. This is the small mining town where the two american outlaws were killed by the Bolivian army.