Travel Minute: The best tips for dealing with altitude sickness learned on a trip to Cusco, Peru
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- Published on December 13, 2022
- Last Updated December 22, 2022
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Use these tips to avoid getting altitude sickness.
Travel vlogger Tinabeth Pina provides you with tips and tricks to help you on your travels. As a world traveler and host of Global Scholars, an award winning show airing on PBS stations nationwide, which follows students as they study abroad, Tinabeth has gathered a wealth of information to help you on your many journeys.
In this episode of Travel Minute on DETOUR, Tinabeth shares the basics about altitude sickness and what she did to acclimate to the high elevation in Cusco, Peru.
At over 11,00 feet in altitude Cusco, Peru is the perfect place to use these helpful tips to avoid altitude sickness. They will be helpful on a trip to Machu Picchu which is only about 50 miles away. To watch the Travel Minute with Tinabeth video on planning a trip to Machu Picchu click here.
