Rhod and Anna's World Adventure

It`s a free day in the Sacred Valley and after a few days of seeing inca sights and museums and markets and generally taking lots of photos it was time for a change. Maybe a little extreme sports in the fashion of grade 3 white water rafting.

The happy band of rafters in this shot are me, Anna, my mum, my dad and Karen who is part of our tour group. The guy at the back shouting instructions and steering is Juan Carlos.

Grade 3 may not seem to extreme to some people but for a family who 18 years ago spent a particularly unpleasant day canoeing the Ardeche Gorge in France, grade 3 was a comfortable re-introduction to white water.

It was an excellent couple of hours on the Urubamba river including messing around in the rapids to make the boat fill up with water by all jumping in the front. We are very proud to say that none of us fell in. It´s not difficult really. When an experienced guide gives you an instruction that is for the benefit of your safety, you follow it immediately!

Not sure that my brother would be entirely happy knowing the other 3 members of his immediate family were sat in a rubber dingy floating down a river in Peru. Don`t worry Stu, we have all returned safely.