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 Loretuyoc 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)

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.

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.

Full meals included.

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 Cusco in our private vehicle. We will drop you off at your

hotel. End of our services. (Breakfast, Lunch).

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)

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

MULTISPOR T APURIMAC

BLACK CANYON

- 4 DAYS / 3 NIGHTS

2019

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.

Total section of the river to be run in the next days 52 kilometers

Timing:

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 join.

12.30 PM lunch

14:00/416:30 rafting

16:30 set up camp

Sunset about 5:50 PM

Timing:

5.00 AM sunrise

6.30 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Load boats and start rafting

11:00 AM Arrive to take out

12.00 leave the river for our 4-5 hours drive back to Cusco.

13.00 Lunch in a sightseen point.

18:30 Arrive Cusco

115 Kms to drive back to Cusco city