All they had was dried potato soup and coca tea.
Bolivia, where most people still drink coca tea and a high-octane maize liquor called chicha, is even beginning to export wine.
In the ground-floor lounge, I drank many cups of coca tea, the local antidote for altitude sickness.
Similar to decaffeination in coffee, coca tea can be decocainized.
Where else, they ask, would the après-ski tradition include coca tea and soup made from the grain of the quinoa plant?
Seen as an antidote to the effects of thin air, coca tea is served to tourists by some of the most elegant hotels.
South Americans routinely drink coca tea and chew coca leaves.
He also wants to open markets to coca tea, which is legal and popular in the Andes.
Relapses fell from an average of four times per month before treatment with coca tea to one during the treatment.
At 12,000 feet, the air is so thin that visitors are immediately offered coca tea, which eases headaches, nausea and weakness.
