Potosi, Bolivia - Havin a Blast!

Hey all! For me to say I'm having a ball is an understatement, cos when I'm not climbing Volcano's, I'm watching them erupt, no kidding!!! I was leaving San Pedro De Atacama in Chile, and looked out the window and the whole bus screamed out 'PULL OVER, PULL OVER IT'S ERUPTING!!!' and with no warning, ash was pouring out of this baby, but no lava that we could see cos we were a few k's away, but a few good videos resulted and some pics I've included. Rob, thanks for the blogging picture tip, but I'm so go go go mate, it's email for now. How much longer are you in Canada for mate? Tonight it's Potosi, it's been an awesome day. I went down the silver mines with hard hat, headlight and miners overalls, the whole kit. We literally crawled through tight spaces where the air got thin, dusty and then got damp as we saw the miners who had statues that they'd sprinkle cocoa leaves at the base of it's feet, where a llama foetus lay, and they put cigarettes in it's mouth and lit them and also poured this 96% alcohol drink the miners have on it's knees, tits and big clay cock hahah! Stange! Mum, you might not like this, and you wouldn't believe me if I tell you, but I stopped by the markets on the way to the mines to buy some gifts for the miners I met, I bought some dynamite, and a fuse and detonator and went out to the fields, primed the dynamite by inserting the detonator like you see in the movies and blew the sh.t out of a raw chicken the miners had by sticking it up it's a.s, trully unbelieavable! I lit the fuse and ran, then a minute later when I was up on the hill puffin like crazy cos of the altitude effects at 4400m, and it blew so loud and with a huge shockwave that blew over you, sometimes you'd even get little pebbles and stones hitting you. So we set off like 15 packs of dynamite, and then two huge ones, but unfortunately no pics, just video which will blow your mind! I'm in one peice and have all my fingers and toes, but it was something that you can do in Bolivia and I'm so glad I did it! I'm a changed guy already, just like I predicted upon returning to Oz. Other than blowing up chickens, we got a flat tyre and stopped at a place and played hacky sack as is common, but a travelmate noticed some pigs and went to take pictures, until the owner emerged with a two foot machete, so don't take pictures of other peoples chickens! :-) Tomorrow it's off to La Paz, which will be a real shock I'm sure, Potosi is bad enough with dodgy food everywhere were the raw food is just left out in the air and kids cough on the market stall food, and there's a disturbing lack of stray dogs in parts, which makes you wonder what you're really eating! Take it easy Adam