Back in Cusco, we met with Chris and Mary a couple of days after they arrived in Lima.
We visited the local Medical Centre, which is like a Community Hospital,with the usual clinics, and Surgery rolled into one (they don't have separate family doctor services). This was to liaise with them and find out what, if anything, we might be able to do to help improve medical services to the outlying schools/communities.
It transpired that there was very little we could or needed to do, as the services are pretty comprehensive.
Fresh fruit juice stall
Spoilt for choice
Prickly pears (fruit of the prickly pear cactus).
Tasty, but lots of hard seeds - very good for bunging
you up if you eat too much of them.
Those pale white objects bottom right are a great Peruvian delicacy,
especially for the Quechua Indians. Called 'dried potatoes'
they are the most disgusting thing ever created.
There is a wide variety of maize. The black maize is used to make Chicha,
an alcoholic drink. It is very good at lowering cholesterol levels
The school children rarely see any fruit and it's always appreciated if you take some fruit (their favourite is mangoes) as a gift. So the first stop is one of the many fruit markets!
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