Altitude

En Global Express Tours el 2010.01.21

One of the anecdotes that foreign tourists take with them after they visit Peruvian soil is that, when they travel as a family, there is always a person, most of the time a boy, that suffers from altitude sickness. Though before it was thought that it was only a myth, in the times in which Peru was recently known as world tourist destination, the altitude sickness is produced by the lack of oxygen in cities of high altitude. Symptoms In the high mountain zones, because of their location, there is lack...