Anthropology

It's easy to see why you've made the trip there with your family, and will probably go again, by all means.

It really brings tears to the eyes just realizing the huge price paid by living people forced to spend their lives there, suffering such hopeless hardship, probably knowing they would never leave the place alive.

Reminds me of the mountain in Bolivia where a silver mine, Cerro Rico, was used to provide silver for the Spanish rulers, starting in the 1500's, using the slave labor of native Bolivian people. It has been estimated that since the 1500's, over 8,000,000 people, including children, have perished, trying to dig silver from the mine. It has been named "the mountain that eats men."

Both places are very serious, historic mines, which should inform the human race of the deadly cost of human greed, if only the human race would learn it.

Learning how water was used in this location was unforgettable, conducted on such a large scale it seems impossible!