Day 11

Whaow!!!!!! each day gets different> just as good but oh so fabulously different and we think our mind cameras are going into overload. Just as well as M has no more batteries for the camera.

We left Puno on the Orient Express run train for Cusco at 8>00 am and it was beyond all expectation. The decor was fantastic and the observation car staight out of the movies.

So much has happened that we will not get things in the right sequence but here goes.

Maybe the first highlight was lunch where we ate so well> Andean salad, carrot and aubergine soup, chicken with pineapple and our favourite lucuma mousse dessert. But the sevice! It was like synchronised swimming! Each waiter of a team of four laying the dishes in perfect timing.

The scenery climbing one thousand metres from Puno to the hight point at Las Rayas at 4,800 and back to Cusco at some 3,000 was like Peru in miniature from the high plain to the mountains and back to the high plains ... from cows to llamas to cows. ... from the plains to snow covered mountains to the high plains.

And you should see our hotel room! check out www.libertador.com.pe and look for the hotel in Cusco. It is luxury personified. There are even fresh flowers in the lav.

To go back to the train... D and I were the only ones who had dressed appropriately poshly for the journey and we were complimented several times on our good taste. But I'll never wear that bra again!!! That's a story for back home.

On the train we had a modelling session of very expensive alpaca wear, of gorgeous silver, of how to make a Pisco sour .. you'll all love it... to some Inca fella doing somethng with incense and Coca leaves.

A very memorable 10 hour experience.

Tomorrow we get a long lie. We have a morning tour of the city, and the afternoon at leisure. Chris and Jenny ... we are going to try the free spa.

See you tomorrow.