potosi tourism

LEFT: Miners keep effigies of the devil whom they call El Tio as they beliebe that he is the owner of the minerals and needs to be appeased with offerings of cigarettes, coca and alcohol. RIGHT: You can beat the winter chills with a oak in the thermal waters of the volcanic crater lake at Tarapaya.I must confess that this photo was taken on a second vivit to Potosi in January when it wasn’t so cold.Romors that there are whirl pools in the center of the lake which suck people in keep most visitors in the cement pools in the valley below. I kept close to the edge of the lake at all times!