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The Belmond Andean Explorer, launched in May 2017, is South America's first luxury sleeper train. [1] It replaces the eponymous Pullman day train, between Cusco and Puno , at Lake Titicaca . By the new train this trip is converted to a one-night journey, and extended from Puno for another overnight ride to Arequipa .
In December 2018, the company agreed to be acquired by LVMH [12] in a $3.2 billion transaction which would delist the company from the New York Stock Exchange and make it 100% privately owned. [citation needed] The announcement of the sale led Belmond's share price to increase by 40% in a day. [13] The deal closed in April 2019. [14]
The Belmond Hiram Bingham is a luxury train operating day return trips from Poroy station outside Cusco to Aguas Calientes, the station for Machu Picchu in Peru.. The train, named after Hiram Bingham, who publicized the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, [a] travels from the high Andes down the Sacred Valley, and for much of the journey it runs alongside the Urubamba River.
Cars sold to Orient-Express Hotels in 2005. Orient-Express Hotels changed name to Belmond in 2014. Cars moved to Peru in 2016, and began use as Belmond Andean Explorer in 2017. Original Australian car numbers were retained, but Southern Peru-related car names were added.
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A team of archeologists have discovered the ruins of what appears to be a 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple buried in a sand dune of northern Peru, alongside skeletal human remains which may have ...
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