Day 25 & 26 – Potosi

After travelling by bus we finally arrived in Potosi which is at 4000ft we dumped the bags and went for a walk and dinner.

I had the infamous k’alapurka soup which is served with a Volcanic stone in the middle. Of course had to try the local beer.

After dinner Sophia, Brad and I went for Churros! They came with a yummy carmel type sauce that is very popular here.

Potsi is a mining town, back in the 1500’s they found silver and town went from 10k to 160k including locals, Spanish and slaves. Potsi means explosion.
Once the silver was empty, they found tin and they still mine tin today.

We went to see the Royal Mint House, they used to make the coins with 93% silver originally but then changed to 80% silver and 20% cooper. 1951 was then last coin in this mint

There was then a mineral collection and our favourite was the massive purple stone

There was also had mummy’s of children in the church that was within the mint.

Cosh got a coin stamped. The yellow building was the first mint house, but we were in the second one.

We then went up the view point which was a spiral staircase that was pitch black when you went past the window. The last picture is the silver/tin mine.

In the evening we had a cooking class with Flor to make empanadas and pizza and of course wine!