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Juicy Shoot Around the World
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The bus journey from Trujillo to Lima lasted
for about 12 hours and we were in one of
the best buses we had been in, with fully
retractable seats, so we comfortably slept
the whole way!
We arrived early in the morning, jumped in
a taxi driven by a friendly chap called Luis
who took us to a shop so we could buy our
train ticket to Huancayo leaving the following
day, before dropping us off in a hostel in
the Miraflores area of Lima.
We had read the center of Lima was quite
a dangerous area (by day and by night) so
we just stayed in Miraflores, explored the
surrounding beaches and relaxed for the rest
of the day, while sipping cold bottles of
Inca Cola...
19/02/2009
  
The next morning, at about 6am, our adventure
on rails started! It would be a long and
fantastic trip of about 12 hours from Lima,
passing through the most beautiful landscapes!
Here are a few statistics to give you an
idea:
We passed 69 tunnels and 58 bridges. The
longest bridge, Puente Carrion was 218 meters
long! The longest tunnel measured 1,375 meters
(that's quite a lot of time in the dark)!
And we stopped at the highest train station
in the whole world, Galera, at a whopping
4,781 meters above sea level!!! It took a
lot of climbing and switchbacks to get that
high!
In order to fully appreciate the views we
spent most of the trip in the bar compartment,
sipping Pisco Sours...
The landscapes were so fantastic we took
more than 400 photos between the two of us!
Everything was going fine when suddenly the
train stopped for a very long time in the
middle of nowhere... Then one of the staff
on the train announced they would be a dance
competition at the back of the train, followed
by a raffle...
Little did we know these were just tactics
to distract us from a main problem: the train
was not moving and would move for another
3 hours!
Eventually we were told there was a technical
problem and some buses were called to pick
us up and drive us to Huancayo...
We got there pretty late, found a cheap hotel,
asked about bus times for the following morning
and had a night full of dreams of railway,
mountains, steam, tunnels and bridges...
20/02/2009
           
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