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Belmond Andean Explorer is owned by PeruRail, and is a 50%/50% joint venture between Belmond and Peruvian investor Lorenzo Sousa, founder and chairman of the board of PeruRail SA. It will be operated by PeruRail, which also has the Hiram Bingham Pullman train from Cusco to Machu Picchu .
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Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri (born May 16, 1960) is an entrepreneur, businessman and author from Lima who oversees large privately held tourism and railway companies in Peru (Peru Belmond Hotels, PeruRail and Ferrocarril Transandino (with a 50% in each one of the three companies in partnership with Belmond Limited).
The luxury sleeper train, Belmond Andean Explorer is operated from Cusco for a one-night journey to Puno, and a two-night three-day journey to Arequipa. Its carriages were formerly used on the Great South Pacific Express in Australia between 1999 and 2003, and brought to Peru in February 2016.
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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Those cars remained in storage in Australia after the service ceased, and transferred in 2016 to Peru for the Belmond Andean Explorer overnight train from Cusco to the Lake Titicaca and Arequipa. Since then the former day train with the same name and on the same route (however, only between Cusco and the Lake Titicaca) is featured as Titicaca ...
The southern railway, operated by PeruRail, a company founded by tourism entrepreneur Lorenzo Sousa in 1999, is the one most commonly used by tourists and is considered to have two of the most luxurious rail services in the world, The Hiram Bingham and the Andean explorer, as a segment of its route goes from the city of Cusco to the citadel of ...