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May Newsletter 2008
 
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Welcome to our May newsletter. This is the time to book your Christmas and New Year tours, so have a look at our options. Follow the links below. Finally have a look at the article about the highest railway in the world and enjoy a tour to Huancayo.
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We are in full preparation for our expansion to Africa and Asia. Besides we continue updating, renewing, improving our tours in Latin America. So please have a look at our “Recommended tours of the month“ and of course the website: www.amazingperu.com.

Testimonial
Dear Robert,
My husband Larry and I would like to thank you for the excellent service we received from all the staff of Amazing Peru during our recent trip of March 20-April 6th. Your entire staff was prompt, cheerful, courteous, and knowledgeable, which made our trip extremely enjoyable.

We would like to give special thanks to David of Cuzco, who found my husband a chiropractor who was willing to come to our hotel on the night of our arrival in Cusco to adjust Larry's painful spine, several days before we were to walk the Inca trail. We would also like to express our appreciation to Patty and the team of cook/waiter/porters, who were extremely attentive to all our needs along the Inca trail, and who enabled two unlikely candidates for the strenuous walk to succeed in completing it with body and soul intact! They actually made it a lot of fun, and we are deeply greatful to them.
Thank you again,
Larry and Ruth Ward .
Dan McElvany
USA Peru & Machu Picchu Tour Group.  
01/08/2008
 
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Lima to Huancayo Train Journey

Riding Peru's One Time Highest Railway in the World
   


 
The world reknown Lima to Huancayo Train Journey in Peru's Central Andes is celebrating its 100th Anniversary. Here are the details. The world’s one time highest railway, running from Lima to Huancayo, Peru is up and running again on a regular basis and will celebrate its 100th anniversary in late 2008.


 
The approximate 11 hour trip passes through 69 tunnels, over 58 bridges and 6 switch-backs. The trip starts at almost sea level and climbs to an altitude of over 4,782 metres. Rail cars have been refurbished and are comfortable, modern, and have a bar wagon with a windowed balcony. The 535 kilometer trip departs from Lima’s Desamparados Station on Thursdays and Fridays and returns from Huancayo’s station on Sundays.

The Lima-Huancayo Railway is divided into two main parts:
  • Lima to La Oroya (222.00 km)
  • La Oroya to Huancayo (124.00 km)
Stops and Sights:
  • Estación Desamparados - At just 100 meters above sea level in Lima, this is the lowest point of the journey.
  • Estación Ticlio - At 4758 meters above sea level, this is considered to be the highest rail point on the trip (the recently constructed Pan-Himalayan line in Tibet is now considered to be higher by a few hundred meters). Here the train stops briefly to strecth your legs, catch your breath, and perhaps drink a cup of coca tea.
  • La Oroya - The train changes tracks and directions at La Oroya. The snow covered Andean peaks and treeless tundra of the altiplano slowly begins to change jus before Jauja.
  • Huancayo and the Mantaro Valley - From La Oroyo to Huancayo the train edges its way lower into the fertile green Mantaro Valley, one of the craft centers of the Andes.
The 100th anniversary trip, will depart on September 24th, 2008.

The once great South American rail system has fallen apart except for a few key routes: Ecuador’s Devil’s Nose Railway, Peru’s Cusco-Juliaca/Puno and Cusco-Aguas Caliente/Machu Picchu, Chile’s Arica-Tacna, Peru and Chile’s central rail network.

Cuzco – Machu Picchu – Lake Titicaca – Huancayo - Huancavelica
 
Departure dates:
May 17, tour 1
May 17, tour 5
May 24, tour 1
May 24, tour 3
May 24, tour 5
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Departure dates:
May 13, tour 1
May 27, tour 1

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of Cuzco in Lucre. For further information on our volunteering and charity projects, please E-mail us at
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information on our volunteering programmes. We also warmly welcome any second hand clothes, toys, books and school
equipment. Just bring a few things with you to Cuzco and we will distribute them and be more than happy to show you
our charity work and local projects.

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