Day off...

Six of us spent 5.5 hours on the "road" today to look at the next two villages on our list. They are maybe 1km apart and an hour past the village we visited last week.

The path to these villages is what I was hoping to see over here. Full canopied forests with intact streams and very small confined roads that are still almost smooth in sections because of the low volumn of traffic traveling in these areas. It was great. We got out to look at a stream crossing and heard a bunch of birds that you usually only hear at the zoo.

The lead levels were between 1000ppm and 5000ppm with some areas around the grinding sites near 20000ppm. Five kids died in that one compound alone.

So we have our work cut our for us. The road kicked our butts and we are all very tired.