Urumbuma white water rafting

While we had our sights on the 5+ rapids of the Apurimac river 3 day excustion our limited time in cusco ment we had to settle for the 3+ rapids of the Urumbuma river day trip. There was six of us on the trip; graham from our trek, racheal and jen, and of course the core 3.

We had a quick intro to paddle this jump this way when i say this and we were paddling down stream. One thing that was realised really quickly was the water temp, it was bloody freezing.

Our guide was quite tame, the other guide was insane he boarded our boat, lined me up and took me into the water. My team, apparanlty, could not get me out of his gorrila grip and decided that to get him in the water i was going to have to go too.

Another overboard was graham, who ended up in the water at the roughest part, i got a hand to him but was unable to pull him in given the weight difference. Hes not a huge guy just comparitivly theres quite a difference. So with the help from chris we got or star paddler back on board and headed for some salmanalla chicken at the rest stop.

Once we reached shore i realised i could no longer feel my feet. This was not just a 'hey its so cold i cant feel me feet' kinda comment. I actually could not feel the rockes under my feet. The constant puddle in the raft and cold water had seen to removing the circulation.

Once out of the water we were directed to the very welcoming steam room were the 3 boat teams defrosted there vitals parts and dressed for lunch.

The bus trip home some realising that the chicken wasnt up to par. Chris threw his out the window of the bus at a busy roundabout getting a few cars and a good portion of the bus.


The team

Grayham








Simon aka Smule aka Gbear








Adam aka chippy aka zippy aka ezip true hollywood story
Racheal








Chris aka smule
Jen









The river