Traveling in Luxury

The Hiram Bingham train was better than I expected.

We had a 4 course dinner and the food was excellent not like airplane food at all.  I had Beef Tenderloin and they asked how I wanted it cooked. It was not just some heated up junk.  So good.

They also have a bar car with unlimited Pisco Sours.

Here is a view of the inside of the train

We are staying at the Palacio Nazarenas in Cusco - now my second favorite hotel behind the Villa Sant'Andrea in Sicily.

Some pictures of the hotel

Interestingly enough, both the hotel in Cusco and the hotel in Sicily are part of the Orient Express, now known as Belmond, group of hotels.  As much as I love the Four Seasons, it is hard to go wrong at an Orient Express hotel.  The service is top notch and the hotels are smaller and more intimate.  By the way, the hotel in Machu Picchu was not an Orient Express hotel and it was horrible.  It was not that the hotel was dirty or anything. Although, it did have kind of a mold mixed with citronella odor.  It was just that the service at the Inkaterra is HORRIBLE.