Rafting down the Apurimac!

Took a 3 day white water rafting trip down the Apurimac river from Cusco. Our first day was a 5 hour drive to the river then about 1-2 hours on the river before camping on the bank. We had a group of about 21, everyone was from Israel except one other American. The second day we got to spend a lot more time on the river hitting class 3, 4, and 5 level rapids. Our guide was awesome and I think the best one. He was super nice - got in the cold water with me to practice my kayak roll, travelled all over the place guiding, and was really knowledgeable about the river. It gets pretty narrow at some points and you can see how high it gets along the gorge during the rainy season - a huge difference. The canyon is pretty deep but we could still see some condors flying high above the peaks as we rafted along. At some parts we had to walk around a chunk of the rapids because they were too dangerous for commercial rafting, but we got to watch our guide and some of our groups´ kayakers go down them - crazy to watch! Throughout the day we didn´t have too many swimmers, but one raft did flip which meant that guide had to buy all the others 6 beers - one for each passenger he dunked. That night we roasted marshmallows over the fire and explained to everyone what a s´mor was, even though we didn´t have any chocolate. On the third day we hit our biggest class 5, and jumped off a cliff into the water (not very high though). Ben and I determined that river kayaking is more fun than rafting, but we still had a really great time.