We are back from the Inca trail. We saw around 300 patients over the course of 2 days, and were able to deliver a lot of health care with our donated medicines. All of our students worked hard, and even those without much Spanish were able to be effective because they made great efforts to communicate with our excellent Peruvian health care professionals. There was a good bit of fun too, with some freeze tag and charades with our Peruvian friends, and a lot of good natured teasing and joking in 2 or 3 languages, and even some scary Peruvian mountain spirit tales. We also got to see some pre-Incan ruins not open to the public yet, most impressive!
We are off for Aguas Calientes and Machu Picchu now, and will be back in 3 days with some fabulous pictures and a great appreciation of the accomplishments of the Incan civilization.
More later!
Dan