Turn it up World!
Hey there world travelers
and buenas tardes Machu Picchu. So, we just wrapped up in an adventurous day on Machu Picchu
learning a lot of the rich history and the culture and we're about to get on
one of the most famous trains here in Peru. It's the Belmond Hiram Bingham and
there's a little rich history about señor Bingham. Want to tell them about him?
Oh sure, he was a professor
at Yale and he was an archaeologist as well, and he actually discovered Machu Picchu
now there's some dispute over whether he was the initial discoverer, but in 1911 he
actually was down here and he discovered some of these ruins that were
kind of overgrown, and really that's where it all began in terms of where we are
today with Machu Picchu. I will tell you they provide such a rich service on that train and
it's just like an experience all in itself from the moment you get on to the
moment you get off, which is about three and a half, or three and a half, three
three hours, three and a half hours later. So, we're really excited to get that
started so right now we're just kind of snacking on a little pisco sour.
There are these really cool like corn nuts again which seems to be a trend here in
different parts of Peru along with some passion fruit drink, yes, exactly.
So, a lot of great stuff, we're excited to get this started, so we're gonna kind of, oh and course
real pisco sour, which is kind of empty. Someone's been drinking it. I've been drinking a lot of it. A little bit.
Give me that. See, it's not just me. It's not just me.
Since we had about an hour and a half to kill before heading down to catch the
Hiram Bingham train, Dave and I decided to have a couple of delicious
cocktails at the Belmond Sanctuary Lodge Hotel in Machu Picchu which, by the way,
our train ticket included the buffet at this remarkable hotel and boy did we
take full advantage of that and I also believe the buffet was only open to
either guests of the hotel or ticket holders of the Hiram Bingham train.
Get on the bus.
Alright, okay guys, so we are going to a luxury train, believe it or not, but I
will say this is definitely not a luxury bus, no, no it's a little tight here, actually really
tight. There is no leg room. I hope you can see it. It's so tight down there.
It is so tight. The bus going up was actually nicer. So, here we go, let's turn it. See where we're going.
Ahh, look at this.
Look at this.
So, quite the experience when you walk in you're greeted by, mademoiselle, fresh oh thank you,
you're greeted by fresh towels and then obviously there's some champagne
nice, looks like a rosé type champagne. So, yeah,
cheers to the kickoff, to the kickoff Hiram Bingham.
All right now as we utilize will do this and display you so get perfect thank you
all of them you had a minute right thank you
perfect welcome to the here and Bingham now I know a big question on many of
your minds is well how much does this here in Bingham Train might cost and
what does that include well let me tell you it's definitely not capital n ot
cheap it cost us around 1942 so lace which is about five hundred and sixty
dollars per person yes I know it's expensive but that ticket did include
the private lunch buffet you saw earlier and tea time at the Belmont sanctuary
Lodge Hotel the bus ticket from Machu Picchu to the train station the VIP
lounge of Machu Picchu station the gourmet six or seven course dinner live
music and of course the unlimited cocktails in the bar cart you are
basically receiving first-class service for about three and a half hours so
there is two options in the mini this evening one was a local fish I actually
decided to go with the ravioli with rabbit so it out
we're going to actually be able to go back to the bar area and this way you
can actually hear some of the music come out of the desert center back here and
obviously the specialty drinks that will be back there as well so we're looking
forward to that and that will be at about 7:00 p.m. which is roughly a fun
hour or so from now okay so a quick update the bathrooms are
very basic bathrooms has there's nothing fancy about the bathroom everything is
when the outside of this laboratory but it's just simple toilet sink and all the
smells that go with like a porta potty cellar nothing fancy about the bathroom
in here hmm and now we're headed to the bar cards let's go check it
Wow so that was quite an impressive beginning to this train trip oh man we
went back to the bar and it was just so live and incredible energy back there
and we haven't even had dinner yet I mean the dance Andy the camaraderie it
was just amazing meeting so many different folks from so many different
places all in one train headed to one stop Cusco so we're looking forward to
more we're kind of cooling off a bit because we are especially me right now I
am a hot sweaty mess so gonna cool up have some agua con guys and then maybe
head back to the bar cart for some pisco sours cuz it's goodbye back there so
Dave what do you think of it I think this is a lot of fun I gotta tell you
the the barcaro is friggin awesome Tiny's you know singing away we were
just singing to all the songs having so much fun oh yeah was this at all is this
right
Dave and I worked up quite the appetite after that kickoff in the bar cart we
were so ready for dinner and dang y'all the food was so good every dish they
brought out had its own Flair of tastes and textures from the potato with the
red sauce to the fresh green salad with the passion food dressing that asparagus
soup Wow topped with a little fresh pepper was
amazing
and oh my god let me just say this the rabbit and beef dumplings but the cream
sauce was simply out of this world
and to top that off with the yummy desserts and chilled white wine we would
say the food on this train is definitely getting five stars from us and now that
we have full bellies we are ready to head back to that bar cart for round two
finally dining yeah ready to pick up our luggage just so you know you can take
this train from Cusco down to Machu Picchu during the day and capture some
of the most incredible years but Dave and I we already took the vistadome
through rail to Machu Picchu and I already seen some of these magical views
oh and if you haven't seen that video you've definitely want to go check that
out just one last piece of advice now this train does broke up fast so you
might have a better shot at booking a ticket from Machu Picchu to Cusco than
the other way around unless you book your ticket away in advance and I mean
way in advance so just keep in mind if you're interested in experiencing this
train during your visit to Peru
very tired
detective I'm shower
before our nitrous mark