Potosi: Outside of the Mines
Here are just a few photos of us preparing to enter the mines, having a good time with our guide, AND OF COURSE: MAKING BOMBS! (come on now, at a dollar a stick and as easy to get as if it were sold at 7/11 how can you blame us for wanting to blow some stuff up!!)
They call this mountain "Sierra Rica" (rich earth) because of the vast amounts of silver that it contained.  However, the mines have a less than nice history: it is said that you could build a bridge from Potosi all the way to Spain using the bones of the men who died mining the silver that the Spanish exported to make their currency
Dynamite Fun!!
Pages:
1: Inside the mines
2: Outside of the mines
I cant find the funny pictures of us holding the lit bombs in our hands, so for now here is just a little preview of our ridiculous bomb making:
Keeli and David on the way to the mines
****UNDER CONSTRUCTION****