Sunday, March 30, 2008

Shooting Pain Down The Neck

Cochabamba Potosi '

Potosi '(4100mt) and' a city 'incredible. Can be reached from Uyuni through incredible scenery as usual and with my heart in my throat, because half the proximity of the edge of precipices. Thousands of red houses climbing up the mountain, in the Cerro Rico, which is called so 'not by chance. for the Incas was a mountain Sacred, then the Spaniards we found the silver and goodbye, in 300 years it is estimated that 8 million between Indians and African slaves in the silver mines. It is said that the silver could be extracted to make a bridge from Bolivia to Madrid and two bridges with the corpses of the poor slaves. In this way qulche City 'has been the world economy has sustained for several centuries: the English silver mined there, English and Dutch robbed the English and Portuguese galleons were selling African slaves to the Spaniards. All content, except Indians and Africans ... Same Old Story, noo? The city 'I really like, colonial style, very colorful and lively and does not so' cool to be at 4100 meters. In the Anglo-Saxon troops, which falls apart tomorrow, it and 'added a "lieutenant of the Israeli army" (here and' full), of 23 years, Sharon, and his other fellow Jagay! Tomorrow I go to visit the mines and then leave for Sucre. Baciozzi

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