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Lima to Huancayo by Train
... car at the back of the train.
The views are fantastic along the entire route. During the journey you’ll pass 69 tunnels, 58 bridges and cross through 6 switchbacks. The train made a stop at Matucana where we could get out and watch a Marinera Peruvian dance in the town square and another stop at the highest point of the route at Galera (4,781 metres). About half of the train was suffering the effects of altitude sickness by this time. I ...
The first stop in the Andes- Huancayo
... washing line suggested there were probably people living there. After a couple of hours we were on our way up into the Andes passing through a string of grim looking towns and incongruous looking holiday camps making the most of the thin ribbon of grass which followed the path of the river down the valley. Piles of dust everywhere, outside shops and homes, it looked like it would be a never ending job trying to keep it under control. After 4 hours we ...
Start of an epic journey
... the world here in the Andes, and what's more they were polluting the surrounding rivers.
Once in La Oroya our taxi driver found us another taxi driver who want another 50 soles for this journey. I could see a bus in the station to Huancayo, so asked the driver how much - 8 soles, granted we had to wait for about an hour for it to depart, but I hated the fact the taxi drivers were trying to rip us off. The bus took 3 hours or ...
Hoch hinaus
... ausserdem eine grosse Ausstellung mit ausgestopften Tieren aus dem Dschungel, was meiner Meinung nach wohl nicht wirklich im Sinne von Franz von Assisi sein kann, der ja als grosser Tierfreund bekannt ist.
Den Sonntag habe ich der "feria dominical" - dem Sonntags-Markt - gewidmet. Huancayo ist nämlich bekannt für sein Kunsthandwerk. Der Markt erstreckt sich über mindestens 10 Blocks (mindestens 1 km!) und war leider recht enttäuschend weil momentan nur wenig Kunsthandwerk ...
Gourds and roadside hangis
... was an ouch. We have left half our luggage in Lima for this section of the trip. The central highlands are so far proving to be much greener, and in fact when we landed some rain was just finishing for the morning. The airport at Jauja was about the size of Onerahi so we were a bit nervous until we got snaffled by some rentacar people who gave us a ride to our bed and breakfast, the Tuki Llajta Pueblo Bonito Hotel. So far no one speaks ...
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