Luxury route
Andean Explorer
Cusco → Arequipa · Peru
Andean Explorer in pictures
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- Distance
- 600 km
- Fastest time
- 2 days
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Belmond · PeruRail
- Train
- Belmond luxury sleeper
- Countries
- Peru
- In service since
- 2017
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
South America’s first luxury sleeper: over a 4,319 m pass and along Lake Titicaca under Andean stars.
How this line was checked
- The 394 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8266111 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 80 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 18 m); the longest stretch away from it is 7.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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