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14 hours
Specific Tour
Unlimited
English, Spanish
The Hiram Bingham luxury train is the best option to tour the beautiful landscapes of the Sacred Valley and reach the majestic Machu Picchu in a 4-hour trip that you will not even notice.
The name of this train honors the man who discovered and brought the citadel of Machu Picchu to light worldwide, the explorer Hiram Bingham, who crossed forests and mountains with the help of locals who were knowledgeable about the area, looking for the legend of the lost city of the Incas to be true, finally he managed to find it and be able to study it, even today it is still in studies, marveling the entire world with its stone buildings and architectural structure that seems to be strongly linked to cosmology.
The Poroy train station is the starting point to get to Machu Picchu from Cusco. On the train, the friendly staff will welcome you with a traditional aperitif to start your trip, later they will serve you a gourmet lunch consisting of a starter, main course and dessert, all accompanied by a delicious Peruvian wine, in the afternoon on the way You can enjoy good music from the Peruvian and international repertoire with the live band that will accompany your trip, you can also visit the bagon bar and taste the selected wine list or go out to the observatory car to appreciate the vast mountain landscape more closely.
The train arrives to the town of Aguas Calientes, once there, the train staff will help you to board the bus that will take you to Machu Picchu, the guided tour of the citadel is included and each Hiram Bingham guide will work with a group of 14 people.
Upon entering the citadel, the guide will explain and show you the wonderful work of Inca engineering and architecture represented by its temples, houses, cultivation platforms built on the slopes of the mountains, hydraulic works so that the water reaches the heights where The citadel of Machu Picchu was established, it should be noted that even today historians and archeologists continue to study it because it is difficult to believe how the ancient Incas could build a whole town on top of a mountain and not on land.
At the end of your tour of the Machu Picchu citadel you will go to Belmond Sanctuary Lodge hotel, which is located near the entrance door of the citadel so that you can enjoy "Tea Time" in the hotel's dining room that overlooks the gardens of wide natural vegetation, when you finish you will be ready to return to Cusco again on the luxury train, Hiram Bingham with a well-deserved gourmet dinner. If you wish, you can also spend the night in the town of Aguas Calientes and rest at the hotel of your choice and then return on the train the next day.
