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Going down the mines

Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 17 October 2009

By: Geoff

If the Death Road turned out to be nowhere near as scary as I’d been expecting, my next big excursion turned out to far more. Potosi was once the biggest and richest city in the whole of the Americas – and at one point even bigger than Madrid, the imperial capital, and all because of one [...]

Tags: Americas , Bolivia , Cerro Rico , Madrid , mining , Potosi , RTW travel , silver , silver mining , South America , The Southwest , UNESCO , UNESCO World Heritage , World Heritage Sites

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