The altitude of the airport is 3,100 meters, and the altitude of the small town of Cusco is about 300 meters higher than the airport, which is a typical highland town.

The road through which the bus passes is lined with almost all two-story buildings, which are either Spanish or Indian, or a combination of the two.

Soon, we saw the ruins of long stone walls and ruined stone buildings, which were supposed to be traces of the Inca civilization.

Mark, who was sitting behind Zhang Nan, looked at the landscape outside and sighed: "The Spaniards destroyed the city, but they couldn't destroy these historic stones. ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Nan laughed, "It's not even 500 years old, and there are many stones in this place, so it's strange that it can disappear." ”

Mark's fierce face was immediately embarrassed: the empire that fell in 1533, this is called a long history?

Once again, the big guy understands the truth: unless your hometown is in Egypt, it's better not to sigh about history in front of the boss!

Poor Brother Mark, the other bodyguards have seen the boss's motherland, and know why there is no two or three thousand years, and they are embarrassed to call it a long history.

However, in the United States, everything from 100 years ago can be related to archaeology, and the most popular archaeological work is to study the Civil War 130 years ago, and as for the "monuments" of the independence war more than 200 years ago, it is very high!

What the?

Colonial period?

That's amazing, in American society, it's like studying the history of ancient Egypt in 2500 B.C.......

For the Mark brothers, the Inca Empire was ancient and mysterious, and in the United States, the city of Machu Picchu, with only a pile of stone walls, was blown into one of the New Seven Wonders of the World: in fact, it was built from the same period as the Great Wall of China.

As for the scale in between...

Don't talk about it.

It's terrible to have no history and no knowledge......

Zhang Nan does not despise the United States' short history of more than 200 years, and it has become one of the two poles of the world in a short period of time, which is very worthy of attention. Everyone around me knows: the boss doesn't want the people around him to be a bun of uninformed buns!

Don't embarrass the boss when you go out!

……

Go directly to the train station, before Zhang Nan arrives, please, the "United Forces" has already sent personnel to Cusco to Tongmachu Picchu to make a front stop for the boss, except for the Peruvian officials who picked up the airport just now, the rest are all their own employees.

Not living in Cusco, although this small town in the basin of the Andes highlands is so beautiful that Peruvians call it "the crown jewel of the Andes" and "the cradle of ancient Inca culture".

But here is 3410 meters above sea level, sleeping at night, even if you live in a hotel with the best conditions, you can make people wake up seven or eight times a night!

Rest assured, there are trees and meadows everywhere, oxygen is not lacking, no exercise will make you dizzy and nauseous, what is lacking is air pressure, so at night, many people who come to travel will feel uncomfortable: not headache, but sleep for half an hour, an hour after waking up.

Soon you will fall asleep again and wake up again in less than an hour......

Repeat the cycle and give you trouble until dawn – this is a common reaction at 3,000 to 4,000 meters above sea level, and if you spend the night at 4,000 meters......

Wait for the headache!

If you don't have an intuitive idea of the altitude here, it is 3,658 meters above sea level in Sunshine City in Tibetan areas, 2,800 meters above sea level in Nyingchi Bayi Town, 3,836 meters in Shigatse, 2,780 meters in Golmud in Haiqing Province, about 2,400 meters in Lijiang in Yunnan Province, and 3,200 meters in Shangri-La......

3400 meters, not low, Zhang Nan is planning to run a little lower as soon as possible, and resolutely not spend the night at such an altitude: a few days ago, the pit was miserable, and the two women in the family, one ran to Lima City by the sea and went back, and the other simply did not come, probably because they were afraid of the altitude of more than 3000 in those mines.

It's better to lose this guy to a man's family.

Xiang Weirong was looking at the Andes Mountains in the distance and said: "It's very similar to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the side of Xichuan." ”

It is very similar, about the same height, and many places on the east side of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are only three or four thousand meters high.

It's all the same green mountains, blue sky and white clouds, and at first glance I thought I was on the territory of the motherland.

When you arrive at a very small train station, you don't need to go through security checks or buy tickets, and you can go directly to the platform.

It will be 10 a.m., and there are only three trains a day from Cusco to Machu Picchu that are open to foreigners, and this is the last one, with the morning train already departing at 7:30 a.m.

The platform is old, and the Peruvians who accompanied it said that the station is more than 60 years old, and since it was built, it has been repaired and repaired, and the appearance has not changed much.

The train feels small, the body is short, and there are only four cars in total, except for the head of the internal combustion engine.

The width of the carriage is slightly narrower than the common train and passenger carriages in China and the United States, but Zhang Nan knows that in fact, the rails below should be standard rails, but the carriages are a little narrower.

I heard Peruvians say that the three trains a day, each train has a different positioning, the morning train is for backpackers, and there is no catering service in all carriages: it is 125 kilometers, it can be reached in more than two hours, and there is no need for a dining car.

Even the lowest class can only accommodate 40 passengers per car, and the interior of the car is exquisite, from the seats to the tables, it is clean and tidy.

And the shape of the car is also different from ordinary buses, not only have wide windows on both sides to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Andes, but also have a lot of rectangular glass sunroofs on the top of the car.

On Peru's most famous train route, passengers can see through the windows and take in the mountains and rivers along the way.

As for the ticket price......

It's about $50 per person each way!

Carrying passengers, the world's scenic spots are the same, the more famous the more ruthless!

The 9 o'clock trip was more upscale, with a slightly different interior, a small meal, and everything else was pretty much the same, with a ticket price of about $75.

As for the trip that Zhang Nan will take, it is for the big guys, a dining car with a kitchen function, and the passenger car reproduces the style of a European luxury train at the beginning of the century.

Before I even boarded the train, I felt that it was special: there was a fucking band in a shirt and tie to welcome it!

Fortunately, the clothes are very Western, and the music is a fusion of indigenous and Spanish, Argentine, Chilean and other styles of Peruvian music, enthusiastic and heroic, and the guitarist in his thirties still sings and dances.

No need to check tickets, a treat from the Peruvian mining sector, a multi-billion dollar super customer, and no amount of high standards of hospitality in any developing country is too high.

The three carriages are two and a half cars: just in May, summer has just arrived, the big guys have just arrived, and this most luxurious train is also the first of the year, and there are not many tourists in the rainy season.

The other passengers, only a few from the United States, were given in the last carriage.

The train will only stop once during the 125-kilometre journey, which is 75 kilometres from Machu Picchu, and no one there will buy a ticket for the train at the moment.

The reason is simple: $380 for one ticket......

It can't be described as expensive alone, it's just a money grab!

As soon as Zhang Nan boarded the train, he felt almost like the style of the "Orient Express" dining car: a strong retro style, with wooden and brass armchairs and cushions with elegant printed patterns......

"It's okay, otherwise the fare would be too pitiful. ”

The train moves slowly through the Inga Canyon, and outside the window, you can see dense woods and shrubs, and rolling mountains. In the distance, the Andes Mountains flickered in the clouds and mist, and the snow-capped mountain waterfalls were faintly recognizable......

If you replace the train with a car, the illusion of being in the Tibetan area of China will be even stronger!

There are occasional Peruvian villages along the railway, and from a distance their clothes and buildings seem to resemble those of the Kham Tibetan region.

This plateau railway, which was built in 1928, stretches from east to northwest, winding all the way through mountains and caves, winding and twisting, and it seems to be running into a Kunming railway.

From Cusco, which is more than 3,400 meters above sea level, to Machu Picchu, which is more than 2,000 meters above sea level, and the Urubamba River at the foot of the river, you can see that the river is turbulent and unruly under the action of the huge drop.

From time to time, you can see the Inca ruins on the hillside in the distance: stone-built terraces, stone-built houses, stone-paved ancient roads...... All this seems to tell the story of the Inca civilization that once existed here.

The air seemed to become comfortable all the way down the train, and then the waitress dressed like a flight attendant brought chocolates, snacks and a variety of drinks.

They were all girls of Indian descent and spoke stiff English.

There are a lot of things on the small cart, and it will not be lunch time, and there is a solid wooden dining table in front of Zhang Nan's seat, so you don't need to go to the dining car to eat.

"Sir, what do you need to come?"

Zhang Nan was looking at the scenery outside the window, and when he heard this, he turned his head and saw that it was the waiter.

Smiling, "What's the drink?"

"Coffee, cola and coo-coo tea. ”

Zhang Nan is a little ......

Gu Ke tea, this will be very tempting to ask: "Is there any cocaine?"

If you have one, take it out and let us open our eyes. ”

Forget it, know that this shrub is very common in the Andes region, and the leaves contain cocaine, which has an anesthetic effect. The local Indians often use coca leaves to make tea, which is coca tea, which is as common as coffee for people here.

It is said that it can also alleviate altitude sickness, but Zhang Nan is a good comrade, and when he hears this term, he thinks of cocaine!

In the past, opium was still used as a medicine for toothache, but thinking about the heroin that is starting to cause big trouble in southwest China, as well as cocaine and addicts in American society, Zhang Nan avoids coca tea!

By the way, I don't even want coffee, I'm afraid those cups will be mixed with coo-koo.

The others didn't want Gu Ke tea either, because the kitchen was already starting to prepare Chinese food, and Kwan Xingquan called Paul, "Let the guys in the kitchen watch the jail, the boss hates drugs." ”

Paul nodded, and left.

Zhang Nan had seen Gu Ke Ye, and when he was inspecting the mine a few days ago, he saw some miners stuffing green Gu Ke Ye into their mouths to chew.

The rich people of Peru generally do not have this habit, and the miners ......

Many of the poor will chew on the ancient leaves, probably because the green juice can temporarily relieve the feeling of exertion.

But it seems that few miners in Peru have a long life!

True love for life, stay away from Gu-Koye!