This weekend, my co-worker Lucy and me went to a few upper mountain communities!
We left around 6 AM to take a fruit truck up to the community. This is their only source of fresh fruits/veggies during the week, and there honestly wasn't that much variety.
We slept overnight in the home of one of our health promoters in a community called Kelccanka to see what it's like to live there and to see if we could pick up on any other health challenges that were not otherwise obvious. We had a great time getting to know our health promoters, Ana Cecilia, and her family. She graciously let us into her home and we loved it. The next day we walked 8 hours with our packs to Yanamayo, Brooke's far away community, and found out that the road was closed, so they couldn't stay there and went back on a fruit truck to Ollantaytambo.
It was an excellent and very unique experience.
¡Enjoy my hilarious/epic pictures!
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| Fruit truck we took to get there |
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| Epic! |
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| The mountains and me |
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| Our tour guides |
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| The town of Kelccanka (you can see where stayed---it's the little house with the red roof!) |
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| Loving it |
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| The house in which we stayed |
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| Making guacamole with the best avocado |
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| Alex, Ana Cecilia's son, in her house with the "chicken parade" as we called it |
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| ¡Cutie! |
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| Walking around the community |
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| Gatito! |
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| I look 100 pounds heavier than I am in mountain clothes...they let me dress up in them! I also have about 5 layers on-it was cold up there! |
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| ¡Bonita! |
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| Lucy with Ana Cecilia |
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| Hilarious picture of Brooke in traditional garb with health promoter Ana Cecilia |
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| Seeing a pregnant patient |
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| Smoke escaping |
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| Ana Cecilia's house where we stayed |
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| Kelccanka |
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| Outhouse |
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| The alpaca of our health promoter |
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| Checking me out |
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| River that rushed through the town |
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| Happy alpaca |
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| Pigs! |
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| The alpaca of our health promoter, Ana Cecilia |
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| Lucy carrying a heavy pack |
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| Mountains! |
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| Horse and her baby |
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| We made friends |
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| Happy alpaca |
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| Can you spot the baby alpaca? |
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| Brooke's office |
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| Yanamayo, one of Brooke's communities |
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| Lucy on the road to Yanamayo |
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| Girl with a cute puppy that was 1 month old on the way home from Yanamayo |
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| Rainbow when we got home right by Ollanta's market |
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| Brooke in the fruit truck on the way to Kelccanka Friday morning |
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| Road less traveled |
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| Hanging out of the back of the truck |
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| Shot from the back of the fruit truck on our way up the mountain |
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