ADVENTURE PROGRAM: APURIMAC RIVER: Head Water of the Amazon River + MACHU PICCHU
DAY BY DAY ITINERARY DAY 1: ARRIVE TO CUSCO At your arrival to Cusco Airport our representative will be waiting for you to take you you hotel located at center of the City. Overnight at Cusco City No meals Included DAY 2: CUSCO We will pick you up from your hotel or meet you at the place of your choice for the city tour. We will start with a visit to the Cathedral, built over 450 years ago, and its fine collection of paintings of the Cusqueño School. After this, we will visit the Koricancha, the most sumptuous temple of the Inca culture, which was dedicated to worship the sun. Next, we will drive to the magnificent ruins of Sacsayhuaman and its impressive rocky constructions, followed by Kenko, PukaPukara and Tambomachay. Finally, we will head back to Cusco city. Overnight at Cusco City MEAL: Breakfast + Lunch
DAY 3: FROM CUSCO TO MAUKALLACTA AND CEDROCHAYOQ DAY BY DAY ITINERARY The guide will meet you at the hotel to leave Cusco (7:00 am) in our private vehicle, we will drive for 2½ hours towards Maukallacta Inca site. We will hike for about one hour and half to the mythical Inca site called Maukallacta (2,900 meters) where we will enjoy our snack and hear stories about the Ayar brothers and wives, founders of the Inca civilization. After a hike and visit this amazing and sacred Inca site, we will enjoy lunch. Then we board our car for the next 3- hours driving down to Molle Molle village and then uphill to Huanoquite town and the Willkacunca pass at 4,100masl (13,874 ft.). From this point we will get into the Apurimac River canyon with an impressive view of the surrounding mountains and the majestic gorge of the river, the headwater of the Amazon river. At that point we will start driving down and you will notice a warm atmosphere and a growing forest until it turns into the spectacular relic of centuries old native forest. After 25 more minutes we will arrive to the Cedrochayoq Bridge at 3,300 meters (11,316fts), where we will find our campsite beside a magical waterfall. It will be time to enjoy happy hour before our dinner. There is an optional 2 hours hike from the pass to the campsite. (Lunch, Dinner). TIMING: 7:00-9:30 AM drive to towards Maukallacta Inca site 9:30 11:30 AM hike 12:00 Lunch 13:30 15:30 drive down to Molle Molle and then to the pass 15:30 17:00 possible hike to camp or can drive in 25 minutes Sunset about 17:50 DISTANCES: Cusco to Maukallacta > 90 kms Maukallacta to Camp > 70 kms. Hike in the morning 8 kms (down and uphill) Optional hike to camp 3 km (mostly downhill)
DAY BY DAY ITINERARY DAY 4: HIKE TO ROCOTO COMMUNITY - HUAJACHACA BRIDGE AT THE APURIMAC RIVER: After a balanced breakfast we will do a short hike to visit Loretuyoc forest, where we will find over two hundred year old trees of an endangered species. We will find and follow part of the royal highway coming from Cusco and going towards the Apurimac river and then to the Pacific Ocean coast. We will keep walking for the next two hours down through Kusichaca remains to Rocoto village (2800 meters) where we will meet the local people and have the chance to bring some help to the local school. From here, we have the choice to keep walking for 2 more hours or just board the vans and will drive for a half an hour to the end of the road from where we will have a must hike down for about 500 meters down to the river near the base of the Inca bridge of Huajachaca, used by the antique Peruvians to exchange goods between the Pacific Ocean coast and Cusco as the capital of the empire at (2100 meters). Lunch will be served at the river shore. At this point we will meet the other part of the crew, our river rafting guides and all the equipment and gear to continue with our expedition by the river. After lunch our river rafting guides will provide us with our river equipment and will give us a safety briefing before getting to the class 2-3 rapids of this fantastic river. We will star to paddle and find bases of old bridges used since centuries by Incas until now. Dinner will be served at the campsite around the campfire. Full meals included. TIMING: 5.00 AM sunrise 6.30 AM Breakfast 7:30 AM start hike down to Rocoto 9:30 10:00 AM arrive Rocoto community and visit school 10:30 Continue second stretch of the hike until the river for 2 more hours and half. Arrive noon for lunch 14:30 after safety talk, we start our rafting trip for the next 2 hours. 4.30 pm Camping Sunset about 5:50 PM DISTANCES: First 5 kms to Rocoto village with a gentle down hill Last 5 kms to reach the river with more inclined down hill Total hike altitude lost during hike: 1,200 meters in 5-6 hours.
DAY BY DAY ITINERARY DAY 5: SANTO TOMAS RIVER - 3 CONDORES RAPIDS AT THE BLACK CANYON. After a healthy breakfast we will walk around the campsite to admire the vegetation like bromeliads and orchids. In the morning we will some easy rapids and pass the nice part of the canyon and admire some waterfalls and have the chance to explore a little creek. Then, after cross calm waters and black rock for about 2 to 3 hours will meet a tributary call Santo Tomas River and continue by an amazing limestone canyon. After lunch, we will run quite a few class 3 rapids and to have the big chance of find river otters, some deer, cormorants, torrent ducks and other tropical Andean birds. Will have lunch at a sandy beach. In the afternoon we will pass many old suspended bridges along the river and have another set of rapids like 3 condores, before set up camp in a nice sandy beach. 5.00 AM sunrise 6.30 AM Breakfast 8:30/9:00 am start rafting after load the rafts 10:30 AM continue rafting and snacks at Santo Tomas river 12.30 PM lunch 14:00/416:30 rafting 16:30 set up camp Sunset about 5:50 PM
DAY BY DAY ITINERARY DAY 6: THE OTHER RIGHT RAPIDS - HUALPACHACA BRIDGE - OLLANTAYTAMBO After breakfast, we will run the most intense sets of class III to IV pool-drops rapids, called "The other right" among others. Also time to explore a couple of waterfall creeks. We will have lunch at the end of our adventure, followed by a four-hour drive to Ollantaytambo on of the last Inca living towns. Overnight at the Sacred Valley of the Incas Meals: Breakfast & Lunch DAY 7: MACHU PICCHU Very early, we will take the train to Aguas Calientes or Machu Picchu town, from there your guide will walk you to the bus station to take the bus to the top of the hill where Machu Picchu citadel is situated, the guide will take you around this spectacular Inca ruins, visiting the most important places (optional climbing to Huayna Picchu). Lunch at the adjacent Sanctuary Lodge hotel. In the late afternoon return to Aguas Calientes, where you will take the train to come back to Ollantaytambo, from this place transfer to Cusco hotel. Overnight at the Sacred Valley of the Incas Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
DAY BY DAY ITINERARY DAY 8: LAST DAY REALX AT THE HOTEL AND THEN TRANSPORTATION TO CUSCO AIRPORT After breakfast, we will take a 2 hours drive from the Sacred valley of the Incas to Cusco city to take your flight back to Lima END OF SERVICES
INCLUDES: - Private Transportation from the Airport to the hotel in Cusco City - Profresional English speaking guide - Entrance fee to the Cathedral and the Koricancha - Touristic General Ticket - Cusco City Tour - Transportation to and from the river - All meals and excellent diet during the expedition (3 Breakfast, 3 Lunch, 3 Dinner) - All professional rafting equipment (dries bags and class V river gear) - High quality rafting equipment and self-bailing rafts - One Safety Kayak for each 2 boats - All camping gear (screen dinning tent, double person tents, mattress, etc) - Safety and professional river procedure - Best Peruvians class V river guides (International training, swift water rescue and wilderness first responder courses) - Professional First aid kit - Satellite Phone and rescue procedure - Environmental care - Entrance Fee to Machu Picchu - Shittle bus ticket Up and down to Machu Picchu - Vistadome Train Ticket - Meals mentioned on the itienrary - 02 Night Hotel in Cusco - 02 Nights Hotel in the Sacred Valley NOT INCLUDES - Domestic flight Tickets Lima to Cusco and Cusco to Lima - Drinks - Tips - Dinner on Days: 1, 2 6 y 7 - Extras not mencioned on the program
General Manager Pepe Lopez Mobile phone: 51 984766531 Operation Manger Karina Zuvileta Mobile Phone: + 51 9847634 Travel Designer MEET OUR TEAM E-mail : pepelopez@apumayo.com Founder of Apumayo Expediciones, a 20 years Peruvian inbound outfitter. Entrepeneur and visionar about sustainable, non conventional and adventure tourism. Based in Cusco and operating luxury and glamping tours along the country. Since the beginning supporting reforestation and social projects in the area of the Sacred Valley of the Incas and Machu Picchu. E-Mail : supervisor@apumayo.com Karina Zuvileta was born in Cusco. She have been working for 15 years in the tourism industry and in the last 10 years she works as Operations Manager. She feels blissful doing this job because she consider herself as a person with experience to arrange trips for travelers in Peru. Alberto Brou Figari Mobile Phone: + 51 941 70 12 16 E mail: salesweb@apumayo.com Alberto started travelling at a young age, coming from a family that loved the outdoors. He spent his vacations camping, biking, and hiking. After he finished university he moved to Cusco where he began leading adventure tour. Travel has always been his passion. You can find him exploring rivers in his kayak, hiking around the highest peaks of the Peruvian Andes or biking through ancient trails. 3
Apumayo Expeditions, a local Peruvian company based in the City of Cusco, established in 1995. Specialized in adventure travel and non conventional tourism, combining it with cultural, educational and natural history. Apumayo Expediciones describes itself as a commercial venture with a strong environmental and social agenda, development and supporting in the way many projects like river cleaning up, offering activities and tours for people with disabilities and support Andean community projects, which maximize the positive effect of tourism activities locally. CONTACT INFORMATION 24 Hour Guest Service Travel Line: +51 984766534 / 984766531 / 984766533 Office hours: 08:00 am to 6:30 pm Monday to Friday. Only Saturday from 9am to 1pm Office Phone : +51 84 246018