Huancayo, home to the Wanka tribe and city of festivals, 3280m (10,760ft) in the Andes and 380 kms (236 miles) from Lima, was our home for 3 weeks. We fancied taking one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world from Lima to Huancayo, it's also the highest train journey in the world reaching a height of 4815m (15,800ft), but it only runs once a month, a schedule which defies the most organised travel itinery! And our travel itinery wasn't organised anyway! Huancayo comes from the original quechua words "huanca-ayllu", meaning people or town of stone. There are many archeological sites of the Huancas (also known as Wankas) around the valley, but the tribe only covered a small part of Peru. The Spanish (conquerors of Peru in the 1500's) changed the city's name to Huancayo,
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