20th November 2006 - Explosives are fun.

This morning we went into the mines. Potosi's silver mines. Craziness!
For Leicesterians, you might've visted Snibson´s mine, but this was nothing like that. The mines are tiny, sure there are some bigger passages for the wagons to pass by, but mainly you're on your hands and knees. There's multiple levels to the mines, you enter at level 1 and the furtherest we went down was level 3 - far enough! At one point I had to slide down a wooden slide, basically, not realising until I got to the bottom that there was bloody wagon coming down behind me!
The air was incredibly dusty and all around there was cooper sulfate, asbestos and cyanide. Yeah, we found that out after we'd gone "Oh, look at that!" *poke*. Hmmmm.
My voice has lowered by a good few semitones, all the dust!

The best part was building a rather powerful explosive. I shall explain all next time as I have to catch a bus to Villazon now.