{"id":24,"date":"2008-07-04T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-09-26T13:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:18:23","slug":"apurimac-rafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Apurimac Rafting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little video of our time on the Apurimac River near Cusco.  We arranged to have a 4 day private trip, rowing our own boats.  My dad Joe and stepmom Jane had arrived in Cusco a few days before, so it was just the four of us and four guides.  This was definitely the biggest water any of us had run, and the rating system seems a bit looser down here, so the 5+ rapids we ran would have definitely been 6&#8217;s in the States (the standard rating scale for rapids is 1-6 from least to most difficult\/dangerous).  The video looks a lot more tame than it really was, because this was really powerful water.  Several of the rapids the guides wouldn&#8217;t let us, or anyone else, run because of the danger involved, but we did convince the head guide to let us run Toothache with him, a difficult 5+, which Aviva managed to do part of standing on her head as you can see at the beginning of the video.  All in all it was a fantastic trip and we had a great time, and the owner\/head guide wants me to come back and guide for them later this season as they&#8217;re really busy, so there might be more videos in the future.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><flv href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/video\/Apurimac_streaming_320x240.flv\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" autostart=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little video of our time on the Apurimac River near Cusco. We arranged to have a 4 day private trip, rowing our own boats. My dad Joe and stepmom Jane had arrived in Cusco a few days before, so it was just the four of us and four guides. This was definitely the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peru","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrisandaviva.com\/peru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}