Sentences with phrase «on coca leaves»

The moth Eloria noyesi, known as «el gringo» by the locals, only lays its eggs on coca leaves; which the caterpillars then consume.

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

For instance, chewing on a coca leaf is way different than rubbing Colombian marching powder on your gums.

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

My husband had a bad headache on the first day in Cusco, the coca tea and chewing the coca leaves helped him a lot.

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.

To avoid altitude sickness or altitude sickness is highly recommended acclimatization day or two depending on the person, enjoy light meal, go for a walk to speed acclimatization and finally as recommended by the agency, take a leaf coca tea which make you feel good and ready to start our adventure.

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.

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.