Peru Day 8-White Water Rafting in the Sacred Valley

We pulled out of the home stay this morning and decended overy 1500m down in to the valley to go white water rafting.

 During the rainy season this river is a level 5 out of 5. Today it i's a level 3. Yeah, I'm down with that!

We hit the water with very little previous experience and a bit lot of fear in our hearts.

 We did 45 minutes of easy rafting to get used to not drowning.

 The second 45 minutes consisted of trying in earnest not to drown. We did one level 3 rapid and some level 2s. It was a tremendous amount of fun!

After rafting we checked in to our newest hotel and grabbed some lunch. I was so thrilled to be able to easily order ketogenic food again.

It was quite difficult for me to eat up in the mountains as their traditional foods include a lot of potatoes, quinoa, rice and carrots. I was glad to have come prepared with a lot of my own food.

As we left lunch we saw 2 bulls being guided through the street...as you do of course.

I will be honest with you, dear readers, for a quick moment. We got and stayed dirty in the mountains. The showers were the only place that hot water could be found, but they were located in a tiny hut outside. So even thoughthe water itself was warm, the air surrounding said water and said naked flesh was somewhere between -5 and about 9. Nope. Hard nope.

So Dave was the only one ofthe 7 of us who showered and we all just collectively accepted that this is how it was going to go. It will come as no surprise that I hit the shower almost instantly after lunch.  The white face cloth that I used came up grey!!! There was a lot of dust on that mountain.

We spent the afternoon wandering around the local market. It was mostly the same stuff we've been seeing everywhere else. We stumbled in to a chocolate museum and learned about chocolate while sampling the end product.

Dave is getting really good at Spanish. For those moments when the 20 words/phrases he knows don't serve our purposes we use Google translate. Here the clerk at the museum is typing in her answer to Dave's question. Technology is grand!

We are packing tonight for our morning journey to Macchu Picchu. That's right! Tomorrow is the big day!!!