Luxury route
Belmond Hiram Bingham
Cusco (Poroy) → Machu Picchu · Peru
- Distance
- 96 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 29 km/h
- Top speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- Belmond / PeruRail
- Train
- Belmond Pullman coaches
- Countries
- Peru
- In service since
- 2003
- Runs
- 5–6× weekly, May–Dec
- Highest point
- 3,486 m
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Belmond’s navy-and-gold Pullman to Machu Picchu, with brunch, a pisco bar and citadel entry folded into the fare since 2003.
Named for the explorer who brought Machu Picchu to the world’s attention in 1911, Belmond’s navy-and-gold Pullman train has been the grand way down the Urubamba since 2003. Brunch is served as the cars drop off the Anta plateau into the Sacred Valley, and a live band holds court in the open-balcony observation car. The fare bundles the shuttle bus to the citadel, the entrance ticket and afternoon tea at the Sanctuary Lodge beside the ruins.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5646859 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- 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
Along the way
- Anta plain villages
- Pomatales gorge descent
- Ollantaytambo fortress
- Urubamba rapids at km 82
- Cloud-forest arrival below the citadel
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