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A mining boom town of the high Colombian Andes, Potosi offers up churches built on silver, UNESCO sites, famous mints and an enchanting old town. Check out this regular El Dorado with a tourHQ guide.

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Cesar Renjel

Cesar Renjel

I've been working as a tour guide since 1994. I'm responsible for helping people to visit ...

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Javier Quispe

Javier Quispe

I love my job, I will be guiding the rest of my life.

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JULIA CATUNTA JANCO

JULIA CATUNTA JANCO

I am an enthusiastic and dedicated person who always gives 100% to every task undertaken. I am an ...

JAVIER RAMIREZ

JAVIER RAMIREZ

My name is Javier Ramirez and I am a professional cultural tour guide. I work for almost 25 years ...

Emmanuel Monroy

Emmanuel Monroy

I'm a tour guide from Bolivia working since 4 years ago and I've traveled all around my ...

J Cesar Renjel

J Cesar Renjel

Hola!! I'm Cesar, an experienced and professional licensed Tourist Guide of Bolivia, I've been ...

Jose Callisaya Yahuita

Jose Callisaya Yahuita

I like climbing and enjoy being in the mountains. I like to see the sunrise & nature in its ...

Jeff Sandifort

Jeff Sandifort

Jeff has had a lifelong passion for climbing and exploration of all sorts. Born in Australia he ...

Luisa Mamani Lopez

Luisa Mamani Lopez

I am a very responsible person with my work, I like to share the culture of my country, to show the ...

Wendy Yllatarco

Wendy Yllatarco

I am working already in tourisme since 1998, the last 15 years I was working in all Bolivian ...

Juan Carlos Viscarra

Juan Carlos Viscarra

My name is Juan Carlos Viscarra my friends call me Juanca or JC. I studied Accountancy and ...

Silvia Murillo

Silvia Murillo

I am a tour guide I love what I do and this is my best ...

Jose Augusto Merida

Jose Augusto Merida

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Isaac Chara

Isaac Chara

Diter Murillo

Diter Murillo

Andres Agudo

Andres Agudo

Born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia. Fluent in English, French and (of course) Spanish. University ...

Potosi

4,000 metres up in the highlands of southern Bolivia, the Cerro Rico hill of Potosi rises its way above the red-tiled roofs and adobe houses of the old town.  Defining the city’s horizon, it was beneath the dusty desert surface of this very hill that silver was found in bounteous quantities’, making this town rich, legendary and famous all at once. Soaring to a population of more than 200,000 people between the 16th and 17th centuries, Potosi became one of the first mining boom towns of the Americas; the closest the Spanish colonials ever came to that lost city of gold. 
Today visitors are invited to partake in this great historical narrative, wandering their way through the cobbled lanes of the old town, taking in the old Potosi Mint, the quaint mountain cottages, and UNESCO attested churches, all built on silver foundations, by silver coin. Those looking for something a little more immersive should ask their Potosi tourist guide to book a tour around the tunnels of one of the local mine cooperatives currently in operation, the conditions of which have sadly not improved much since the colonial times.

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