Ryan and I spent a day in Chinchero - a very small town about 45 minutes from Cusco. The altitude there is about 3,800 meters above sea level. We stayed with a local family, and their eldest daughter, Miluska, gave us a tour of the town, and the local ruins. The farming terraces you see above were constructed during the Inca period, and Miluska´s family still uses them to grow potatoes. We were feeling a little light headed from the altitude, so she picked some "muña" for us to smell. She rubbed it all over Ryan´s face and head, then stuck in under his tuque. Her cousin Martin got some coca leaves for Ryan to chew on. They have been used for thousands of years to relieve symptoms of altitude sickness.
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