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Potosí: Cerro Rico Mine Guided Tour
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Potosí: Cerro Rico Mine Guided Tour

By Perla de Bolivia
8 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$55 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • English Speaking expert guide
  • Necessary equipment for the mine tour (helmet, boots, pants, jacket and lamp)
  • Discover how local people works inside the Mine

Activity location

    • Cerro rico de Potosí
    • Potosí, Potosi Department, Bolivia

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • C66W+C8W, Ayacucho, Villa Imperial de Potosí, Bolivia | Meeting time: 9:00 a.m. Meeting point: Main Gate of Museum "Casa Nacional de Moneda de Potosi" - Ayacucho Avenue. The tour guide will call your names.
    • Villa Imperial de Potosí, Departamento de Potosí, Bolivia

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Potosí: Cerro Rico Mine Guided Tour
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English

Enjoy a visit Inside the famous mine “Cerro Rico” with an expert tour guide.
Appreciate and learn more about style-life of miners.
In 1672, Potosí became one of the richest cities in the world.

Starting time: 9:00 am
Price details
AU$55.38 x 1 AdultAU$55.38

Total
Price is AU$55.38

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedSpecialised bilingual guide. (English - Spanish)
  • What's includedWhat's included Transport.
  • What's includedWhat's included Entrance fees.
  • What's includedWhat's included Necessary equipment for the mine tour (helmet, boots, trousers, jacket, and lamp).
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGifts for miners - Soft drink or cigarettes
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Snacks

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Pets
  • Not suitable for: Children under 10 years, People with claustrophobia, People with heart problems, Pregnant women

What you can expect

Itinerary
After getting picked up from city centre and before reaching the “Cerro Rico” (Rich Hill), make a little stop at the Mining Market, the most attractive in the area. Have some free time to buy some dynamite, alcohol, and coca leaves as presents for miners to be visited inside the mine.

The mines visited are located at the base of the historical Rich Hill of Potosí. Inside, appreciate the system of miners’ work that has not suffered great changes after so much time of exploitation.

Touring the different galleries and interior levels of the mines, visitors can meet some places where the miners built statues that represent to their gods as The Uncle of the Mine (the devil). Visitors also can see the mineral veins which are a group of rocks and chemical formations of minerals, chimneys, apart from having an experiential sharing time with the miners and observing the different work methods that they carry out every day.

Location

Activity location

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    • Cerro rico de Potosí
    • Potosí, Potosi Department, Bolivia

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • C66W+C8W, Ayacucho, Villa Imperial de Potosí, Bolivia | Meeting time: 9:00 a.m. Meeting point: Main Gate of Museum "Casa Nacional de Moneda de Potosi" - Ayacucho Avenue. The tour guide will call your names.
    • Villa Imperial de Potosí, Departamento de Potosí, Bolivia