Sentences with phrase «of coca leaf»

Reception in Cusco airport and Transfer to Marqueses Boutique Hotel where they will welcome you with cups of coca leaf tea a traditional drink to minimize the efects of altitude, Relax, rest and acclimatize.

Reception in Cusco airport and Transfer to Marqueses Boutique Hotel where they will welcome you with cups of coca leaf tea a traditional drink to minimize the efects of altitude, Relax, rest and acclimatise.

There is no sign of trauma, and it was probably a combination of coca leaves, alcohol and the deadly cold that allowed her to slip into a final sleep.

Chemical analysis of her hair shows a dramatic change in diet, as well as regular doses of coca leaves and alcohol from a special ritual beer.

Drinking mate de coca (an infusion of coca leaves — and perfectly legal in Peru) may help.

Coca tea is a mild stimulant and similar in effect to the chewing of coca leaves by the native population.

If you don't like chewing the leaves, just fill a water bottle with hot water (which they supply at the campsites) and add a load of coca leaves to it to make tea, which you can drink as you go along.

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With a lack of state support, farmers interested in moving out of the coca trade are often exposed to FARC dissidents and other criminal groups, who have rushed to fill the vacuum left by demobilizing FARC units and want farmers to continue tending coca bushes.

Under the watchful eye of cartel operatives, coca leaves are converted into cocaine, usually in Colombia, Peru, or Bolivia, in labs near the fields where they're grown.

Unlike most insects, the caterpillar Eloria noyesi feeds on the leaves of coca plants.

The Cubeo enjoyed the mild euphoria and endurance the powdered coca leaves provided but showed no signs of addiction and used it into healthy old age.

Butterfield & Robinson arranges an afternoon ceremony with a skilled local shaman who predicts the future using coca leaves in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.

The best - known secondary metabolite which all of you are probably familiar — is cocaine (which can be infused from a coca leaf).

In the case of Okwe, there is a mystery about what his dream was, like the mystery of where he came from, why he knows so much about medicine, and why he chews coca leaves to stay awake 24/7.

You can also sample coca tea, which while not alcoholic is made from the leaves of the coca plant, the same one used to make cocaine.

Dishes and ingredients include coca leaves, guinea pig, chicha made from local corn, and of course the pisco sour.

As your body adjusts to the higher altitude, take it easy, drink lots of water, avoid tobacco and alcohol, and drink coca leaf tea.

Led by a shaman, it consists of laying out small amounts of native Andean cereals, grains and fruits, along with coca leaves, as offerings.

Pros: Beautiful rooms (we stayed here for four nights before our Inca Trail trek, two nights afterwards, and then one night on route back to Lima, in order to transfer to Paracas, so we have experience of a double room en - suite, a four - bed dorm room with private bathroom, and a double room with shared bathroom), comfortable common areas, individual lockers in left luggage area (each of which will comfortably house 2 x full 65 litre backpacks), a myriad of services available, reasonably fast wifi, helpful staff, coffee and coca tea available free of charge at all times of day.

We stop for coca leaf tea at the Aguada Blanca National Park, the habitat of the beautiful South American cameloidaes, the vicuñas, alpacas, waris and llamas.

During this trip we will pass plantations of manioc, papaya, pineapple and coca leaves.

Another piece of valuable advice from the locals is to chew on coca leaves prior to setting out on any high altitude trek.

The very first part of the tour, though, starts at 4350m for some incredible downhill mountain biking, so you might want to take coca leaves, sweets or tea to help with the altitude sickness.

Machu Picchu has been associated with the earth cult revolving around the coca leaf, which was a privilege of the Inca royal family and priests.

It was associated with the earth cult revolving around the coca leaf, which was a privilege of the Inca royal family and priests.

We put the coca leafs into our passports so they will stay intact until we reach the top of the mountain (called Pachamama in Quechua) where we are going to sacrifice them.

Everyone in the group receives three coca leafs, which we show to the mountains while we repeat after Simba a number of words in Quechua.

• Pre trek briefing • Pickup from your hotel in the morning • Transportation to the start of the trail (Lares - Pascana) • English speaking professional guide • Igloo tents - 2 persons in each 4 - person capacity tent with plenty of space for your backpacks • Double thickness foam mattress • Hot water every morning and evening for washing purposes (while hiking) • Accommodations: 2 nights camping, 1 night hotel • Cook and Cooking equipment • Meals (03B, 03 L, 03 D)- food includes pancakes, omelets, soups, fresh fruit, avocado, pasta, chicken, fish, meat, rice, all rich in carbohydrates and suitable for trekking, hot drinks including coca leaf tea which is excellent for the altitude • We supply boiled water to fill in your water bottle all the time, if requested with enough time ahead (while hiking) • Teatime the first two days (tea, coffee, biscuits, popcorn) • Horses days 1 - 3 (for equipment and personal items) including horsemen • Dining tent with camp tables and chairs • Kitchen tent • Accommodation for our crew • First aid kit including emergency oxygen bottle • Bus from Machu Picchu ruins up and down to the village of Aguas Calientes • Machu Picchu entrance fee • Train ticket (Backpackers service) from Aguas Calientes to Cusco • Transfer from the train station to your hotel.

One wonders if Weber and Stritzler - Levine realised just how far off the map they would go when independent institutional curator José Roca, a native of Colombia who now lives in Bogotá, agreed to take on the project.1 Inspired by a show of Andean chuspas — bags made from coca leaves — that would run simultaneously in the BGC Focus Gallery, Roca envisioned immersive environments in which the paradoxes, polarities and points of contact between diverse artistic practices are explored through the tropes of the river and weaving.2 The works themselves provide their own context as they interact with each other and viewers, who are given a minimalist illustrated pamphlet as their only guide to what they will encounter in the gallery spaces.

Rojas» practice has ranged from personal explorations of the subjective experience, such as photographs secretly capturing public encounters between gay men in 1970's Bogotá, to indictments of drug trafficking and consumption through the reconstruction of pop imagery from coca leaves.

Set in a bleak valley high in the Andes mountains of Bolivia, it offered a half - mile (one kilometer) swoop downhill, a precarious ride back up on a rope tow, and coca - leaf tea for altitude headaches.