Neslihan Ozkan

It is a 10+ hour train ride ( mainly touristic) from Cusco to Puno, where the Lake Titicaca is. Alternatively, you can take a bus, which is cheaper and takes approximately 10 hours. Either way the ride offers spectacular views as well as some sad lessons in income inequality in the Peruvian economy. Recently, I also traveled in Morocco by train. Morocco’s GDP per capita is approximately $5000 while Peru’s GDP per capita is around $10,000. Morocco ‘s high speed trains and train stations are better than those in the UK and Germany etc. In Peru there is no such comparable infrastructure despite the fact that it has far larger GDP per capita than Morocco’s.