As touristy as the town may be, I thoroughly enjoyed the colonial architecture and 20+ churches and, of course, the creepy mine tour of Potosí.
The town is tucked in the beautiful rolling Andes and was exploited by Spainards who basically enslaved the indigenous people to work in the mines.
The 
townspeople still work there to this day, and allow tours to come in exchange for gifts of gloves or candy or soda or coca leaves (they chew them like some people chew tobacco).
townspeople still work there to this day, and allow tours to come in exchange for gifts of gloves or candy or soda or coca leaves (they chew them like some people chew tobacco).
They have the god Tio, aka the devil, inside little rooms in the mine where they leave gifts in exchange for good luck.
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