We had an early start to the day in Potosi, as we were going to visit the infamous Potosi mine, situated in Cerro Potosi (a 4800m mountain). According to official records, 45,000 short tons (41,000 metric tons) of pure silver were mined from Cerro Rico from 1556 to 1783, and Potosi became one of the richest town in all of the Americas. Nowadays, a small amount of silver is still mined, but it is mainly tin, lead and zinc. Unfortunately Bolivia is too poor to p...

It was a sad goodbye to our friends in the other group this morning, we were all feeling a bit sorry for ourselves after too many sexy llama b****es last night. We hopped on a bus to head to Potosi, which Shirley missed because she was faffing around at breakfast, who knows when we'll see her again! The bus ride was only 4 hours, just enough time for a kip. Feeling fully refreshed, we pulled into Potosi in second gear (the bus couldn't go into any higher gears!...