Potosí – passing through…

A nice little town.

Walked around, checking out the lie of the land so to speak! Not much to it really.

  • A large square; check
  • A clock tower that does not work – check
  • A Para-Ti chocolate shop (so yummy!)- check
  • A street mall or two selling most things
  • not too much of interest, except…

…for the National Mint of Bolivia (SpanishCasa de la Moneda de Bolivia) or the Mint of Potosí. According to wikipedia, it is the mint located in the city of Potosí in Bolivia. It is from this mint that most of the silver shipped through the Spanish Main came. The tour was most interesting.

We tried for an English guided tour, but to no avail. Instead we followed a standard Spanish speaking one. But to all the followers credit, they made sure we understood what was going on, bless them. Sign language proved very useful!

Spent one night in Potosí on our way to Uyuni; to start our next 4-day 4WD adventure through the Bolivian salt plains,  deserts, lagunas, mineral deposits and ¨moon valley¨…

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