Sunday 16 June to Wednesday 19 June Sunday was a day mainly for travel, getting the bus to Humahuaca, where I’d pit stop overnight. The following day I would carry on to Iruya, a small town in Northwest Argentina with a population of just over 1,000 of mainly indigenous people. On the bus to Humahuaca I was joined by an elderly Argentine man chewing on coca leaves. This is commonplace in the northern reaches of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru - basically wherever you’re very high up. Properties in the coca leaves help to fight fatigue, suppress the appetite and combat altitude sickness. The man and I attempted to chat, though he had no English and I was finding his accent difficult. From what I grasped he seemed to be commenting on how nice it was
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