Machu Picchu: Peruvian tourists claim poor treament, lack of rail space, high prices

Posted on August 12, 2012 • Filed under: Peru, TRAVEL

Tourists can not leave Machupicchu sleep in the street of Aguas Calientes

SOLD OUT. Local train tickets, which costs 10 soles and only offers PeruRail, sold out until 07 August. About 100 tourists stranded nationals are unable to return. Tourists can not leave Machupicchu sleep in the street of Aguas Calientes
SOLD OUT. Local train tickets, which costs 10 soles and only offers PeruRail, sold out until 07 August. About 100 tourists stranded nationals are unable to return.
A national tourist, identified as Molly, can not leave Machu Picchu with her ​​two children, because there are passages in the local train, which costs 10 soles. The budget that traveled to see the wonder of the world prevents them from purchasing a more expensive ticket. Molly said that with their children sleep in the pews of Aguas Calientes, because they can not afford the price of housing in excess of 60 new soles. Fortunately, he says the weather is warm these days. And Maruja and Angelica, about a hundred visitors spend the same hardships due to lack of return tickets on the service economy. PeruRail reported by the high demand and high season of tourism, “local train tickets to Machu Picchu are out until Tuesday August 7.” He called on passengers to acquire “local train tickets to Machu Picchu town, as early as possible.”

ABUSE TO NATIONAL
The other two operators in Ollantaytambo-Machu Picchu route, Inca Rail and Andean Railways, do not offer social service PeruRail. Hippolytus Salas, president of the Front for the Defence of the Interests of Machupicchu, lamented that domestic tourists, not having money to be abused . It was he who contacted us with the tourists who claimed the company to sell them tickets. Read Article

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