potosi
from there, the guys left for salvador, brazil, and i to potosí, which is a little mining town south of la paz. they have coal mining caves that you can visit, and so rodrigo ( an argentine guy from my hostel) and i decided to do the tour. the tour takes about 4 hours, which i thought would be a long time to spend crawling in a closed dusty place. but it went by fairly fast and i kinda imagined myself like the dwarfs in snow white…
i still can not believe the conditions that these people work in. most of the workers work ten hour shifts, and make less than one dollar a day…and the average age of the workers is 20. we bought coca leaves, cookies, and dynamite to give to the miners, because this is what keeps them going throughout the day. lighting off the dynamite was cool because it was risky but i thought i lost hearing for a bit…
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