Kitted up
Coca, dynamite - you know, just the normal stuff you can buy on the streets in Bolivia
Potosi mine entrance
Spinach teeth from the coca leaves
Check out the wad of coca our Japanese friend shoved in her mouth!
Put to work lugging 60kg bags of ore up 15m
I couldn't understand all our guide said, but apparently El Diablo shacked up with Mother Earth (who, by the looks of things, must be quite satisfied) and as the miners are penetrating her, they offer him beer, near 100% alcohol, coca leaves and miners' cigarettes so he doesn't notice.
Well if I ever become a politician I can say that I didn't inhale... (it's tobacco)
Getting into the bad stuff (it's called potable alcohol - and isn't much else)
Round two and it's starting to burn
Our multicultural tour group from Straya, Germany, Brazil, Japan and Fwonss.
The mine's in the mountain (that's not meant to sound like a warning)
One of the nice spots in Potosi
