Potosi, or as we fondly recall the city that likes to punch you in the head, is the highest city of its size in the world at 4,070m. It is also dominated by Cerro Rico, the location of a working silver mine. It had been highly recommended by other travellers and a necessarily brief stop on the way north from Uyuni. It was also hopefully going to be a good opportunity to satisfy some pyromaniac tendencies by blowing up TNT. We’d even heard that our intended hostel had the most awesome book exchange known to Bolivia, which would be welcome after Lynette had to Ruth Rendell for a bus trip or two. But did we manage to explode any dynamite? Would we gain access to the fabled book exchange? And why did Potosi seem to dislike us so much?
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