Getting down and dirty

Friday, January 6th, 2006

We came back to La Paz completely exhausted and famished, checked into a hostel with a good shower and decided to give our aching muscles and lungs a little rest. We slept all day and it worked like a charm. By the end of the 5th we were ready to move on and caught a night bus to Potosí — the highest city in the world at 4,090m — where we planned to visit its famous silver mines and get dirty climbing inside narrow shafts.
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