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The best train tours in Peru
17 hotel-based trips in Peru had enough verified data to score; hostel and self-guided rail-pass trips are not ranked here. The ranking below is fully mechanical; here is exactly how it works:
- Eligibility: only hotel-based tours are ranked. Trips built around hostels or self-arranged accommodation are left out, since these guides recommend hotel-inclusive tours for the general traveller.
- Rail share (35%): the percent of the trip actually on trains, from the itinerary.
- Value (20%): price per day against the other hotel-based trips on this page (cheaper per day scores higher).
- Data completeness (25%): full day-by-day itinerary, imagery, inclusions, and verified price.
- Departure breadth (20%): how many months the operator publishes departures for.
Three-day rail journey to Machu Picchu from Cusco via Sacred Valley
- Rail share
- 25
- Value
- 100
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 100
3 days · from $673 ($224/day)
15-day Peruvian Andes loop from Lima to Machu Picchu on two PeruRail trains
- Rail share
- 35
- Value
- 82
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 50
15 days · from $5,761 ($384/day)
23-day escorted rail journey Buenos Aires to Lima via Andes and salt flats
- Rail share
- 45
- Value
- 59
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 50
23 days · from $14,069 ($612/day)
16-day small group tour through Peru to Machu Picchu by rail
- Rail share
- 19
- Value
- 94
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 50
16 days · from $5,085 ($318/day)
16-day small group tour through Peru to Machu Picchu by rail
- Rail share
- 19
- Value
- 88
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 38
16 days · from $5,755 ($360/day)
16-day escorted rail and coach tour through Peru, Argentina, Brazil
- Rail share
- 25
- Value
- 65
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 38
16 days · from $8,441 ($528/day)
16-day solo travellers tour through Peru to Machu Picchu by rail
- Rail share
- 19
- Value
- 71
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 25
16 days · from $7,430 ($464/day)
16-day small group tour to Peru's Inti Raymi festival and Machu Picchu
- Rail share
- 19
- Value
- 76
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 13
16 days · from $6,626 ($414/day)
14-day Peru journey by luxury sleeper train from Lima to Machu Picchu
- Rail share
- 36
- Value
- 53
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
14 days · from $8,837 ($631/day)
13-day Peru rail journey on the Belmond Andean Explorer to Machu Picchu
- Rail share
- 35
- Value
- 47
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
13 days · from $8,575 ($660/day)