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Becca, Zoe and Katy's Peruvian Adventure
Hello!
We are quite behind on our journal entries, so we are now going to tell you all about our white water rafting experience, which we did last Monday.
A large group of us got picked up at 9 by the guide we had on the Lares Trek, and set off on our journey to the Urabamba River. It was yet another quite precarious journey, with many incidences when it looked like the wheels of the bus were actually over the cliff edge - much to the delight of our housemate Louise, who is an EXTREMELY nervous passenger!!
When we arrived the guides proceeded to blow up the rafts, and I (Katy) became more and more nervous!! We then put on our lifejackets along with some rather stylish helmets, ond got onto the raft (minus wetsuits!), in 2 teams - boys vs girls. Zoe was extremely upset by this, as it meant she was unable to be in the close vicinity of a certain Peruvian... Rayna, whom she developed mild stalkerish tendencies for on the Lares Trek.
We were talked through the moves we would have to do, and then practiced them on the calm bit of river. We rafted through the 1st rapid, which was quite calm, and then had approx 45mins of rowing to the next set. These were much more impressive, although still not that scary, much to our surprise! After crossing the rapids, our guide made us turn around and row against them, which was great fun! He also taught us a move which he termed "attack", but which actually involved us all pilling into the front of the raft, dipping it under the water, and getting completely soaked... this is apparently called surfing! We were much better at this than the boys, who could not do it at all, even after numerous attempts.
After the final rapid, the guide then pushed us all in, where a couple of us lost flip flops, which Becca was then ordered to get by the guide! Louise's lost flip flop was eventually found in the raft when we returned to land, much to Becca's annoyance!
We ended up in a pretty town called Ollantaytambo, where we then had to change out of our swimming stuff in the middle of a field, with only a bus to cover, but which the boys got to first unfortunately and quite unfairly!
It was a great day, and we would definitely do it again.
Hope you are all well, missing everyone lots,
Love all of us xxx
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