![]() The back end of the train was open air so you could lean out and watch the world passing by.Ĭontinue reading “Train travel and Titicaca” Author Alex Greenwood Posted on 20th January 2016 1st April 2016 Categories Bolivia, Peru, Travel Tags Andean Explorer, Bolivia, Casa de Felix, Copacabana, Cusco, Hostal Inti Wayra, Isla del Sol, Juliaca, Lake Titicaca, Llachon, Peru, Puno, Uros Islands 2 Comments on Train travel and Titicaca Cusco and the Sacred Valley of the Incas Then there was a large bar carriage with windows curving up so you could see out of the roof too. The toilets were also very smart, more like a nice hotel than a train. The seating carriages were very plush, old fashioned with armchairs and proper tables with little lamps and tablecloths. We boarded the train and, as it pulled off we went to explore. We went for a drink in the waiting room and realised we were probably the youngest passengers by about 30 years too! The other passengers were mainly made up of an older tour group from Tazmania with their Chilean guide, and we had a nice chat with a few of them. We arrived at the station and passed our bags to the porter, aware that ours were the only backpacks being loaded amongst the smart suitcases. The train stopped at the highest point of our journey The train took 10.5 hours, a few more hours than the bus and was much more expensive, but it was a great way to spend a day travelling. Since I normally get travel sick on long distance buses and Chris doesn’t particularly like them either, we decided to go for a much more interesting option of a train from Cusco to Lake Titicaca. Continue reading “Thoughts on Peru” Author Chris Greenwood Posted on 5th February 2016 17th March 2016 Categories Peru, Travel Tags Cusco, Lake Titicaca, Lima, Machu Pichu, Nasca, Peru, Peruvian cuisine, Puno, Sacred Valley Leave a comment on Thoughts on Peru Train travel and Titicacaīright and early on the Monday morning in Cusco we packed up and headed for the train station. ![]() With all that said you can probably guess where this is going, so please bear the above in mind when you read the following thoughts. Finally, since we’d seen the top sights of Peru before we tried to skip some of them and go to places where we hadn’t previously been. On top of this as luck would have it one or other of us was ill for more than half of the time that we were in Peru which took a little bit of the shine off it, and didn’t let us enjoy everything quite as fully as we’d have liked. As a result we had some preconceptions and naturally having had an amazing honeymoon there nearly 4 years earlier the country had something to live up to. This is a slightly difficult post to write because Peru is the first country that we visited on this trip where we had been before. ![]()
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