The Rough Guide to Peru by Sara Humphreys
Author:Sara Humphreys
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Peru
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2018-09-17T10:10:15+00:00
Tim Draper/Rough Guides
SCENIC ROUTES TO PUNO AND LIMA
Even if you aren’t planning to spend time around Lago Titicaca, the rail journey south to Puno is worth taking, though it’s far more expensive than the bus. The journey starts in the Cusco region and takes around twelve hours, covering a soul-stirring route that climbs slowly through stunning green river valleys to a desolate landscape to the pass, beyond the town of Sicuani. From here it rolls down onto the altiplano, a flat high plain studded with adobe houses and large herds of llama and alpaca, before reaching Lago Titicaca and its port city of Puno.
If Lima is your destination, consider the twenty-hour direct highland road route northwest from Cusco through Abancay and then down to the coast at Nazca. Known as the Nazca-Cusco Corridor, it offers access to a range of potential stopovers on the way: the archeological sites of Choquequirao and Sahuite; the city of Abancay and protected mountain forest area of Ampay; the thermal baths at Chaullanca and the alpaca and vicuña centre at Puquio; and, of course, the mysterious archeological sites around Nazca itself.
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