I am still in Bolivia. After the Salt Flats we took a bus to Sucre, where I took the opportunity, to see one of the silliest tourist attractions of the trip so far. "Dinosaur footprints found in a cement factory". No, Im not making this up. You board the 'dinobus' and the guide shows you a vertical wall of limestone (techtonic plates have shifted, etc making the prints vertical) and points out lots of tracks and presumptions, like "see where those two tracks cross? Scientist say, that was two dinosaurs having a fight 6million years ago"
Wooooo, Dinosaurs!
After some days in Sucre, I headed to Potosà where I took the tour of the (very claustrophobic and pelegroso) mines where the miner co-operatives still work with the same methods as colonial times. Before the tour we went to the miners market to buy gifts for the miners, like a local Fanta ripoff and er sticks of dynamite. Not forgetting of course to buy an extra dynamite so we could blow it up after the tour. If you have been down the mine (Rob, Shannon, etc) , or you enjoy depressing documentries, you might be interested that some-one has made a nice docu-movie about it called "The Devils Miner" http://www.thedevilsminer.com/ that is worth seeing.
Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain, mine in PotosÃ)
Tick, tick, boom (buying dynamite at the market!)
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