The nearest city to Machu Picchu is Cuzco, once capital of the Inca empire. A rickety, narrow-gauge train runs between them through the Sacred Valley of the Rio Urubamba, past fields of beans ...

Machu Picchu sits 7,972 feet above sea level ... The Andean Explorer, a Belmond train, offers routes between Puno, the closest Peruvian city to Lake Titicaca; Arequipa, the white-washed colonial ...

this otherwise exclusive property can only be reached on foot via the Inca Trail or by a winding bus ride up from the train station at Machu Picchu town—also known as Aguas Calientes.