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| Working miners (minerals such as zinc) |
Potosi, the world's highest city (4090m) is not as bad as we thought... On the other hand, the working conditions in the mine are worst than what you can imagine... But they still smile and joked with us! Shocking, hard climbing in very narrow corridors, hot, intoxicating a little but worst it... more than 2 hours in the mine is quite an experience... We bought some present for them (juice and coca leaves to chew). It could have been dynamite too! ....
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| Dynamites, cigarettes, alcohol (96 degrees) for the miners... |
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| Coca leaves to chew for the miners & for Thierry! |
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| Entrance of the mine |
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| 20 bags of 50kgs each, 10 times a day! |
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| Chewing coca... |
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| El T(D)io! The God of the mine (representing the devil) |
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| Our guide, lighting a cigarette to see if we will have 'Buena Suerte' - if the T(D)io smokes it, it is Good Luck, otherwise... we might have stayed in the mine! |
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| Another one (older)! |
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| Potosi, world's highest city! |
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