RAPPELLING AND BUNGEE JUMPING...DAY 5

We had two more days left in Huaraz and with nothing to do. We had done the three most popular Huaraz tours. We decided to see about doing any other activity we could find, so we went to the main strip, Av. Luzuriaga. It was around eight in the morning and we went into quite a few offices. We finally found this one place that offered bungee jumping and rappelling for S/80 each I think. It was quite expensive because it was just the two of us. If we had had more people, it would have been much cheaper per person. We continued looking around to see if we could find it any cheaper, keeping in mind that we had to call that S/80 place by 10 o'clock if we still wanted to go. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any other place that offered both activities so we returned to our room. We decided we were just going to go on the S/80 tour and began packing our change of clothes because the man had told us we were going to get really wet. I called the agency to reserve the activities and the man asked us to be back in the office by 11 o'clock because he needed to call the guide and have him get the equipment ready.

At 10:45, we headed back to the office and the man in charge, began explaining what we were going to do. He asked us if we had open toed sandals for the rappelling activity because we were going to get our sneakers wet. Once again, we didn't have the right stuff for the activity, so he asked us to try to find some sandals or bring another pair of shoes. My guide told me he possibly had some sandals I could borrow but not for Daniel since his feet were ginormous. He told us where we could go to try to find sandals for him. We must have looked in all the shoe stores in Huaraz for his stupid sandals! None of them had his size.... stupid tall people with big feet! We're a country full of short people (a great deal of the population is so please don't be offended fellow Peruvians) so it's hard to find anything bigger than a size 10 here. We headed back to the office. Daniel was just going to have to get his feet nice and wet. From there they informed us that our guide had to go do another tour and they gave us a new guide. We followed him to a bus stop and he paid for our bus ride to this one place on the side of the road. When we got off, he had us follow him uphill on this path that isn't very noticeable from the street. We were going to rappel first. Since neither of us had experience in this sort of thing, he told us we were going to do three descents. The first one would be as a practice run with no water involved and the other two were going to be down a waterfall. Our guide went down first to show us how to do it and less than a minute later, he was back up to where he had left us. We were amazed he had made it up there so quickly. Neither of us had too much trouble going down. I was actually a little afraid of doing this activity because I have small, weak arms but I did just fine.