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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

From the 100 Facts for 100 years of Machu Picchu- Fact #12



Los Angeles Times travel editor

12. Some hotels provide oxygen for visitors; others offer coca tea, and it's not unusual to find packets of coca leaves for sale. These can be chewed and are said to help relieve altitude issues. And yes, cocaine is produced from the leaves, but the amount of the alkaloid you'd ingest from the tea or chewing the leaves is small.


While most hotels have oxygen in case of emergency hotels like the Casa Andina Private Collection and the Hotel Monasterio in Cusco offers an oxygen enriched room options for their hotel guests.

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