Apurimac River

 4 Days / 3 Nights Itinerary

This exciting white water rafting expedition is rate among the best of world-class rivers; we star our trip from Cusco 3,400 mts. driving for 5 hours across the Andes down to the Apurimac River, (in the native Quechua language means “Speaker of the Gods”. This river is also the most direct source of Amazon making the longest river in the world, we put-in at 2,000 mts. It will take us about two hours to prepare all the equipment using only state of the art self-bailing rafts and catarafts. We’ll have lunch and raft down to our first camp. All the meals are prepared by our staff on a campfire under the night sky of the southern hemisphere, at one point we arrive a Narrow Canyon with an impossible rapid where we have to do a portage for about 300 mts. Most one the time we will rafting class III + and IV rapids but we also have a few class IV+ and V rapids among  the wildlife in this remote and isolated canyon we could find rivers otters, bob cats, foxes, torrent ducks, cormorants.

DAY 1: we meet at 8:30 am. From Cusco 3,400 mts. altitude we drive 5 hours through the Andes to the put-in at Huallpachaca bridge 2000 mts. altitude. It will take us about two hours to prepare all the equipment, self bailing rafts; oars, paddles, coolers, helmets, life jackets, practice afterward we will be floating for 1 ½ hour, doing class II+III IV rapids. Camp at narrow gorge with impressive walls, here the guides will prepare dinner.

DAY 2: After a healthy breakfast we stat rafting around 10:00 am. Today we will be in the water for about 4 ½ hour doing mostly class III and IV rapids, dealing with another short portage stopping for lunch and arriving to camp between 3:00 pm. and 4:00 pm. today we’ll have tea time and sleep on a sandy beach under the night sky of the southern hemisphere.

DAY 3: After a good breakfast we are going to be rafting through a couple of class V rapids with names such us “tooth ache”, “you first”, “last laugh”, after 3 or 4 hours of rafting we will arrive to camp at another nice sandy beach at river night, lunch and happy hour before dinner are included.

DAY 4: After a good healthy breakfast, we will float down river running more rapids until we arrive to our private take out where we pack all the equipment and drive back to Cusco arriving around 6:00 pm.

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