Apurimac means the oracle or the speaker of the gods in Quechua native language! the Apurimac River is main source of the amazon river, the longest river in the world! Apurimac has created a canyon that is twice as deep as the grand canyon in the States as it measures 3,000 metres! The river includes loads of rapids making it impossible for ship transport, but an ideal place for rafting adventure. This provide us perfect conditions to experience exciting white water rafting vacation in Perú. By undertaking this tour, you enjoy daily river rafting trips, observing stunning nature and wildlife of the river and canyon and camp under the sky. This all supported by our professional rafting and camping equipment and a tour guide specialized in river rafting trips.
Would you like to experience much better rafting adventure than a grand canyon rafting? So get ready your river raft as these awesome rafting holidays await you.
Do you like adventure trips? Then do not miss out these rafting holidays belonging to the best adventure trips in Peru!
You start your rafting adventure by a morning transport to the apurimac river valley passing the andes on the way. There, you get ready your special rafting equipment as well as you are given a short training on rafting techniques and safety. After that, you start rafting the apurimac river passing rapids of class III and IV. In the end of the day, a campsite is set in a narrow gorge where you overnight after having dinner. On the second day, you get ready in the morning to do more river rafting trips passing other rapids of class III + IV. You enjoy rafting today for 6 hours. Afterwards, you spend the night at a campsite with campfire on a sandy beach watching the sky. The third day is a day of our last rafting trips trying some V class rapids. Then, you also observe the wildlife of this isolated canyon having an opportunity to see animals such as condors, foxes, river otters, bobcats, cormorants and torrent ducks, among others. Later on, you pack the equipment and start returning to Cusco arriving there in the afternoon. You finish this one of the best rafting tours by transport back to your hotel. Join and enjoy one of the 10 best rated rafting trips in Peru
Day 01: Cusco - Apurimac River Canyon
Day 02: Apurimac River
Day 03: Apurimac River - Cusco
Accommodation: 2x campsite.
Meals: 2x breakfast, 2x lunch, 2x dinner.
Transportation: A private transportation, a river raft.
At 9 am, we start out our rafting holidays by a 4 hour ride northwest of Cusco (3,400 masl) across the Andes down to the Apurimac River Canyon - a 3,000 metre deep canyon, twice as deep as the U.S. Grand Canyon!! The 690 km long Apurimac River is the main source of the Amazon River making it the world´s longest river! These ensure us much better rafting contidions than a Grand Canyon rafting tour could offer us!
When we reach the Huallpachaca Village (2,000 masl), we get ready our equipment (self-bailing rafts, paddles, oars, helmets, coolers, life-jackets, wet-suits and others) which takes about 2 hours. Then, we are given a talk on safety and rafting techniques such as know-how on getting back into a raft, a flip of a raft, swimming rapids, etc. Then, we have lunch to afterward start a water ride for about 2 hours doing rapids of class II and III. Later the afternoon, reach our first campsite situated in an impressive narrow gorge. There, we have dinner and overnight.
Next day, we start rafting Apurimac at around 9 am after a healthy breakfast. Today, we enjoy being in the white water for approx. 6 hours doing mostly class III and IV rapids! During that, we stop to have lunch and then we continue rafting down the river towards our second campsite. On the way, we get to a really narow canyon with a very difficult rapid that cannot be overcome so we have to carry our rafts for a while (approx. 7 minutes). At about 4 pm, we reach the campsite. Tonight, we enjoy dinner and campfire on a sandy beach under the sky of the southern hemisphere!
On the last day of this amazing white water rafting vacation, we raft through a few of V class rapids. Except this adrenaline sport, we can also observe the local wildlife such as river otters, bobcats, foxes, torrent ducks, condors and cormorants in this remote and isolated canyon After 3-4 hours in water, we have to finish and pack our river raft and other equipment. We finish our adventure trips by a return to Cusco on our private vehicle reaching it at about 5 pm. There, you are taken back to your hotel and thus your tour finishes. Or, maybe you can ask us about our other rafting tours.
Meal budget: Please allow USD 20 for meals not included.
Single room: Please note that if you have booked the "Single Room" option for this tour, you receive your own single tent.
Local flights: No flights are included in the price of tour!
