This is the highest train line in the world with the exception of the new Tibetan plateau line.

While the Lima to Huancayo section only operates a few days a year, this section is open almost every day. If the timetable does not suit you, you can even arrange for a private one-carriage train.

It's a very slow steam-train journey (8 to 10 hours) through breathtaking Andean landscapes.

When night falls, there are no lights in the train, you just go on travelling in pitch black. Candles available for sale, or make sure you have a head light.

Once in Huancavelica, stay a few days to enjoy this remote Andean town, far from the Gringo Trail. This, is the real Peru!

Hunacayo station, Departamento de Junin.

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This is a bakery that sells cakes so delicious you will come back again and again.

We bought some fresh alfajores (2 round crumbly biscuits with a layer of dulche de leche inside and a bit of coconut flakes on the top) every day we spent in Cusco.

They also have a range of savoury and sweet tarts, hot drinks and breads. Eat in or take away.

The shop is owned by a religious order who looks after orphan girls.

Cuesta de San Blas 579
On the way up to San Blas church, on the left hand side of the road. I think they are closed on Sunday.

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