peru offers three different style trains to machu pichu: the simple ($30 – 40), the medium ($40 – 60) and the extravagant ($300). because the fare was only $40, i decided to take the medium (vistadome) to machu picchu and will take the cheap (backpacker) out of here. the vistadome is not as extravagant as it sounds….from the inside, the train looks a little bit like what people in the 1920s thought trains would look like in the future. periodically, pre-recorded messages (in spanish and english) would tell us safety messages, etc. the spanish version was a very proper woman who annunciated everything perfectly. surprisingly, the english version was not from a peruvian butchering english….but instead from an american with no voice training at all…perhaps a tourist who made a few exra bucks. the train steward made his own little inca wall, piling up 20+ bags in the doorway to create a sturdy tower almost 6 feet high.