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Published: August 27th 2006
Another early start, to take the long Orient Express train from Cusco to Puno - a journey of only 239 miles but which takes 10 hours across the high Andes, never dropping below 3,000m and sometimes going above 4,200m.
Although 10 hours (and Lauren and I have spinning heads this evening from a day's jolting) is a long journey, it is a great one. You go through amazing mountain scenery, farmlands with Peruvians in traditional dress tilling the soil with oxen in traditional ways and waving as you pass, past markets with stall holders waving, past busy streets with tuk-tuks or equivalents.
We speculated on how the two new members of our party (Irene and Gaby, joining us in two days) would have liked the trip had they joined us in Cusco. We decided Gaby would have waved enthusiastically while saying "Don't know how they all know who I am: maybe they've mistaken me for someone else"; while Irene would have said "Cripes - don't know why they need tablecloths on this train, a picnic would do fine...."
On tomorrow to a catamaran tour of Lake Titicaca. Doubt there is internet there - so no logs for a few days.
No comments in last day or so - so hope you're all well.
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Mellings
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Hello
Just read about the Inca Trail and Machu Pichu. What a pity about the rain but it doesn't sound as if it spoiled it at all. Well done on managing it on probably little sleep if there were rocks under the tents. Enjoy your next train journey and enjoy meeting Gabi and Irene, say hello to them from us. Hope Lake Titikakka is good. Have to look up where exactly it is. Enjoy rest of time. Missed you yesterday on our flying trip to London!! love Sue and Phil xxxxxx