Potosi Vacations, Potosi Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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.  Unfortunately had to share it with a London girl who was the stereotypical druggy who´d clearly got carried away with the cheapness of hard drugs in Bolivia and stayed too long - she´d been here...

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 us today".  The mine in Potosi  is like a giant lump of swiss cheese...and after 500 years of mining in any direction one chooses... is on the verge of totally collapsing. Very re-ass...

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 is, it makes me wonder how the hell people climb Mt Everest it must be such a challenge!! Potosi is a city steeped in historical artefacts and buildings dating back to the 15th century and...

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 Potosi is perched at the foot of Cerro Rico, the mountain where the mining takes places and materials such as tin, silver, and antimony are extracted. Other than the mines, a few churches, and a decen...