Thursday 16th April We don't have to get up early but we are awake anyway. We have breakfast and get ready to tour the zinc & silver mine. The bus collects us and takes us to an 'office' to get changed into cover-alls. It's not an office except for the clothes. We also buy gifts for the miners: a choice between coco leaves, drinks, no filter cigarettes, 96% alcohol, or two types of dynamite. Lots of good choices :p. we choose a drink and coco leaves. We ge...

Wednesday 15th April There's no rush to get up this morning. We have breakfast and pack up our stuff. Then wait around for the bus to pick us up at 10. We are off to Potosi about 3.5hours away. It's apparently the highest city in the world. We see quite a few goat herders on the way. I nap on the bus and when we arrive at our hotel we go out for lunch. I order falafels and mal pizza. The food takes forever to come. Ours maybe an hour. There are only 4 small fal...