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Friday, 2 July 2021

In Peru, the train of all drunkenness

After the Venice Simplon Orient express and the Royal Scotsman, the Belmond group is inaugurating the Andean Explorer, a new train of incredible luxury. From Lake Titicaca to Cuzco, immediately embark on a journey along the rails at an altitude of over three thousand meters: the sky is the limit.

“It’s not Peru!” Well yes, exactly. Peru: Rascar Capac, Zorrino, the Temple of the Sun, the roast guinea pig, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, four thousand varieties of potatoes – yellows, violets, green ones -, the Inca civilization , Yma Sumac, queen of the exotic, Andean diva with a voice covering, it was said, five octaves. South of Ecuador and Colombia, north of Chile and west of Bolivia, which stole part of its Lake Titicaca …

Some places crossed by the Belmond Andean train look like spaghetti western settings. Stephane COMPOINT

How to take this mythical country with so varied landscapes? No doubt from the south, for those who discover it. That’s good news, the Belmond group, a notorious specialist in very high-end travel, owner of legendary trains (the Royal Scotsman in Scotland, the Orient-Express, the Grand Hibernian in Ireland, the Eastern & Oriental Express in Thailand) and fabulous hotels (the Cipriani in Venice, among others), inaugurates a new vehicle replacing the old Andean Explorer. An old luxury train, imported from Australia