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
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