Entering the mine, after a brief tour of the refinery, we often had to crawl through the narrow passages, stopping to see shrines to Tio (the Devil - miners worship the devil instead of God, since God cannot reach that far underground). As we descended to the 3rd level, the air got so much hotter and dustier making it really difficult to breathe at times, although when we returned to ground level two hours later, it was snowing. Here, we set off some dynamite - not as exciting as I thought - before heading back to Potosi and a much-needed shower!
In the evening, we went to another tourist restaurant where I had a fairly good Beef San Pedro (braised beef wrapped in bacon with creamy mushroom sauce) as well as sharing an excellent bottle of Bolivian Malbec with Dave.
On the way back to the hostel, some of stopped off at a small local bar, which had an extensive menu of four drinks - beer, chuflay (bolivian national drink), sangani (the spirit in chuflay), or hot chuflay! Nevertheless, it was good fun, playing drinking games until gone midnight.
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