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10-JUL-2008

Humahuaca, Jujuy

The monuments is situated at a hill 20 meters high… it would be nothing, if we wouldn’t be at 2940 meters..
You need to walk slow due to a phenomenon we call apunamiento.. Altitude sickness:, nausea, fatigue and dizziness..
There are higher places at this circuit but the effort to climb this steps, summed to conditions of pressure here, provoke it..
We had no problems, but many were sitting, accepting coke leaves: most of inhabitants chew them, to bear the conditions..
(in fact, height and also lack of food conditions.. those leaves let them feel with energy even not having a good alimentation.).
Besides that, coke leaves have a whole meaning coming from their ancestors’ culture and believing..

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borisalex01-Dec-2008 13:49
Oh Sil I unterstand that, beeing there needs the right stuff to eat... maybee some good pasta dishes... In Switzerland or the french Alps they eat a lot of wheat dishes or for instance Barley (kind of risotto), by the way I´m a professional Chef, who happens to like to take sometimes a few pictures :))
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