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White-Water Rafting

  • November 7, 2005
  • Rated 5 of 5 by Terri Brain from Gloucester, United Kingdom
This was brilliant. It was the first time I'd ever been, so I'm probably biased, but it was a great day out for the team. It only costs 70 soles per person and everything is included. Our trip lasted about 2 and a half hours. The guides were really good but didn't speak much English, just enough to get by. The bus journey from the office to the Rio Mayo takes about half an hour, but it's all included in the price. It is definitely worth it for an exiting day out!

From journal First expedition to Northern Peru

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White Water Rafting

  • March 22, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by dconlisk from Dublin, Ireland
White Water Rafting

I thought I'd done white water rafting before in the US, but it didn't compare to this! Four days spent on the river, camping each night on its banks, setting up camp each night, and packing up every day. There were 16 of us in all, including four staff. Spent the first day taking it quite easy on the water, getting used to the rafts, and learning how to raft, the different signals, etc. Day two was a spectacular day, faster rapids, blazing sunshine, amazing.

The scenery we passed through on the trip was mind-blowing to an Irish boy - we don't have mountains at home, I've decided, we have small hills. The sunshine was very pleasant at the time, however because of the high altitude (we were rafting at just over 4,000m) the UV rays were terribly strong and all three Irish kids ended up with sunburnt feet and hands (of all things!).

Day three was the most exciting - class 5 rapids! Quite dangerous, but very exciting, strictly for adrenaline junkies. Before attempting the rapids we all had to get out of the rafts and traipse up onto rocks overlooking the rapids, where the guide 'explained what we were going to do'. Roughly translated, this means that he scared the crap out of us. However, two sets of brave souls decided to give it a go, and luckily there were no mishaps. I think that this was probably the best buzz of the whole ten week trip.

Day four was a wrap-up day, some long, fun class four rapids, body-surfing, and hydro-speed: a 'new' sport that to me was quite disappointing. You get into the water with a foam 'hydrospeed' which fits around your hands and is shaped like a small boat. Apparently you can do lots of tricks with it - the only trick I learnt was swallowing river water!

Before driving back to base we had a huge barbeque, and did a bungy-jumping like thing involving a standard rope and a bridge over the river. Great fun, not as good as bungy-jumping, but the fact that you have to hold the rope onto your harness and decide when to let go (i.e. fall into the river) makes it a pretty scary time.

All in all a great trip. Highly recommended. Also highly recommended is resting on return to Cuzco. Cuzco was at a higher altitude and instead of a good night's rest I spent most of the night drinking horrible cuba libre's (I am not a fan of rum) and I ended up spending two days in bed with 'exhaustion due to exertion at altitude'. But it was worth it!

From journal Ten Weeks of Madness in South America

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