This is what always I had heard in house and knew that Potosí was famous by its mines, but like everything in the life, until one does not see it in person, it does not become to the idea.

 

 

 Streets of Potosí

 

 

 

The hill from where everything removes

 

 

So that you become an idea, when the mines of Potosí were discovered, was gotten to consider this city like the center of the world. During centuries they were operated and they are continued exploding, less and less since they are less profitable. But of the mines, already I will speak soon.

 

 

Potosí and its streets (with a little snow in the hill)

 

 

 

 

The gifts bought to the miners

 

 

Potosí is an pleasant city, just by a problem: the height and its slopes. Indeed wanted I publish: to do running a single squares, is equivalent to resoplar during half an hour. Really, we had to run because it took hold a storm to us and it almost gives something us all. It is a city to take it with calm. And sight that is a pretty city to take a walk. As a result of the Spanish operation of the mines, Potosí conserves many buildings of the time like churches, convents and a wonderful House of the Currency, that at the moment is a museum. It deserves to take it with calm, and to pass days discovering the city. With a market nocturne that eats the good sea (calm, it was not in this that gave jamacuco me). What has been said, Potosí is worth a Potosí.

 

 

 

 Our guide (handsome, eh)

 

 

 

 

 Become fond of miners…

 

 

 

And then, the second activity of Potosí, is their mines. The visit proper of the mines. Personally, I thought that I was “turistada”, also seeing the amount of people that we went for the mine, but then, after the visit, one leaves with the heart in a fist, impressed by the sight within that mountain. Imaginaros to enter a dark, small, direct site to the Earth center and is your place of work for more than eight hours there. Then that is the mines. I never had entered a mine where she was working and hallucinated with the hardness of the conditions of work. Entering her, one feels in its skin the hardness of the conditions and understands because the miners have so few years of labor activity (in comparison with other professions). Throughout the “stroll”, that lasted two hours, our guide told things us of the mine, its history, its people, their legend… We go very instructive… First, we saw the colonial mines, at the moment in disuse, and soon we went away to see how the miners work. The tradition mark that there is to buy things soon to give: we gave soda waters, leaves of cocaine and tobacco them. If this alleviated a little its day to them…

 

 

With the Uncle, he appears to which render tribute to obtain good luck

 

 

 

 In Potosí also they construct his BIRD (Hereu was there)

 

 

The truth is that, already these two hours only seemed to me interminable and that the caves and depths do not do much grace to me, I hallucinated to have to be day if and day also to gain the one bread there. From here, and following the wake of the porteadores of the Rinjani, another group that enters my top ten of heroes: the miners of Potosí. He goes by them!

 

The Heroes!

 

 

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