My journey across the Peruvian altiplano on the Titicaca train continued. No trip to Peru, I was...
Travel & destinations
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About midway between Cusco and Puno, the Titicaca train makes a stop at La Raya, the highest...
Travelling by train up the valleys and across the high plain between Cusco and Puno is a...
I had just installed myself in my seat on board the Perurail Titicaca Train in Cusco. My...
I spent my childhood in the mountains. Well, not quite. To be painfully exact, I spent it...
Visitors to Cusco will have been offered a day-trip to Mount Vinicunca, popularly known as the ‘Rainbow...
While booking my ticket for Machu Picchu, I faced the unexpected question of whether I wished to...
The view from the top of Machu Picchu mountain justifies the 700-meter climb, that is when there...
There it was. Machu Picchu, a photographic cliché, if ever there was one. And still, cliché or...
I had booked myself into a small hotel in a village called Ollantaytambo (Ollanta), of which I...