Travel Dreams: Belmond Andean Explorer
As we all start to hope upon hope that we will be able to travel again freely sometime in the next year, I bet all of us are dreaming up trips we’d love to take. I was telling a friend the other day that at the top of my bucket list (behind an amazing safari) is taking a trip on a Belmond train, specifically the Andean Explorer, in Peru. First of all: LLAMAS. Second of all, look at this masterpiece of design. I can’t believe it’s a TRAIN!
It’s bonkers, I can’t even wrap my brain around how much fun this would be. Personally, I love taking trains. Whenever I go to NYC, I always, ALWAYS take the Acela. It’s so peaceful and I get so much more work done than when I fly. I can only imagine what something of this caliber would do for me!
The Observation Bar Car is downright adorable.
The fabrics and details are masterful.
I assume this is some sort of library/ den?
GAH!!! The banquette! The trim color! The leather chairs!
This looks like a more modern dining option… the fact that there is more than one place to eat also blows my mind.
STOP RIGHT NOW. This bedroom is beyond adorable! And let me repeat, it’s ON A TRAIN!!!
No doubt it costs a bajillion dollars to have a room like this on this train but…. WOWZAS.
I love the millwork details in the bathroom!
There’s a spa. On the train. A SPA.
This is the more standard twin bed bunk room and ya know what- I’ll take it! ;)
All images via the Belmond website
Some choices inspired by this gorgeous Peruvian train:
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Erin,
Thanks for Belmond post. Looking forward to traveling again, especially for our belated 25 year anniversary.
I could live on that train.
I am totally going to start folding my napkins like they do on this train. Is that cascade style?? AMAZING.
Love this!
BUT – What would you wear? I kept thinking a few things while reading your post: A) how incredible would this trip be? B) How can everything you need be in one train compartment when I can’t make my 2,300′ home work? C) WHAT would you wear? (capsule please)
Melissa
I hear that train acomin…. YES!!! franki
Thanks for this gorgeous, dreamy post , I had never heard of Belmont travel trains, but they are on my bucket list now!!
We did a train trip across Canada (Vancouver to Toronto) and aboard ship from Quebec City the rest of the way. Expensive but so worth it. Our cabin was roughly the size of two phone booths, but you never spent any time in your cabin except asleep. Do it.
And safari; oh lord, that’s a waking dream come true. Whatever you imagine after watching Out Of Africa, it’s better. So much better. Again, very expensive. But do the kids really need to go to college? Just kidding of course.
Friends of mine did the cross-Canada train journey as their honeymoon! They loved it.
Thank you for this! My husband is a train FANATIC.
I am SO planning this train ride for him ( and me)
LMK when you want the deets of my safari itinerary. ( my bucket list )
We went ( pre covid) and it was not only my favorite trip ever…..but the flight ( Emirates) was beyond amazing.
Can’t wait to share it with you.
Robyn
That absolutely amazing yellow Joanna Ortiz dress from your previous post would be right at home dining and cocktail-ing on this train!
SUCH A DREAM!!! I love that you shared this. I interned with Belmond in college and I’ve been hooked ever since. Each hotel or train is better than the next and I dream of collecting a sticker at every single one (like you would see on an old luggage truck; they brought back the stickers for each property a couple years ago). I’ve actually priced out a Peru trip through Belmond including their hotels in Lima, Cuzco, and right next to Machu Picchu…not cheap, but less than the safari trips haha.
whoops! Meant to write “luggage trunk”!
This train is on my list also. I have stayed in Monasterio, A Belmond Hotel in Cusco and would certainly recommend it.
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Beautiful!
I have had one of their trips into Northern Scotland, on my bucket list for a few years now. It.will.happen!