Three Miles High: Peru Rail Journey

An episode of one of the best BBC documentary series made by the BBC. It was originally shown in the UK in 1980. Sadly, Miles Kington passed away in 2010.

Brilliant - so entertaining!

Very depressing looking place.

This is properly sexy.

trains were a wonder and there was a picture showing a horse hidden in the engine hood the noise, the carbon smell and the dust. oh god, that was a journey meant for soldiers and ... You know there was a time which permit only bullock-carts for that too for higher casts. thanks for the vedio.

no pasó por matucana ese tiempo yo vivia en la estacion de matucana tenia 4 años

fantastic video! thanks for sharing...I have watched it over and over...

So blurry, I had to give up. It made my eyes hurt trying to focus.

He wears a suit when travelling

Absolutely brilliant travel episode with Miles Kington. I remember it well the first time it came on the TV and I recorded it then.

Truly memorable sequence on Lake Titicaca to the music of 'Heaven Stone' from Jade Warrior from their acclaimed album 'Way Of The Sun'.

1min 42 and 11mins 12secs. Patty Pianezzi with wooly jumper., She was fixer on this film. MNow Mrs Rodgerson!!

Lovely to find this here. I was just about to publish it from my VHS copy. You've saved me the time.

Interesting documentary, although the narrator must have been misinformed about Peru's left-wing dictator Juan Velasco Alvarado being the country's first full blooded indian president. Juan Velasco's parents were relatively poor, but neither of them were Amerindian.

Went there, and recall distinctly riding coaches that bore a striking resemblence to our British Rail class 101 DMMU sets. They even had the same running gear, and Beclawatt windows. Happy days. Never forgotten, especially those ancient "WildWest" coaches, and the Hunslets, Baldwins...and what a view !

great soundtrack

Great video!!!!!!

TRULY SAD THAT THIS WONDERFUL TRIP IS DESTROYED BY A POMPOUS, BRIT WEARING A FUCKING SUIT. POMPOUS FUCKING IDIOT.

you cut the end off but it was good all the same thanks for sharing

How wonderful to see this again after so many years (decades!).

WOW!!  Their president gets a full month before the idiots grumble!  People here have been grumbling non-stop since at least half a year BEFORE he got elected!!

wonder where they would get parts for that old steam locomotive?

Bingham was not the first to find Machu Pichu, so it is a bit of a misnomer to say he discovered it. He was the first to clear, measure and document it, not the first there.

Thank you for your video am peruvian born from eouropean parents, in Chosica,living now over 30 years in , US.. visited U.K., to see the land of my great grand mom of my child, nice video, gracias.

This is an old documentary...better ways to travel then....

thin air  keep  you  fit   THE  ROAD  LESS  TRAVELLED nice view

The Narrator is a subliminal racist. ....."their little lives"......!!!!!!!WTF...."smells like 500 Indians...WTF

This is the railway Ernest Malinowski

This is awesome! I was here last month andi posted a video on my channel.

What's the name of both the music while riding the steam trains?

What a fascinating documentary! The landscape was stunning and the background music really added to the atmosphere!

Was this railroad built by Minor Cooper Keith and Henry Meiggs?

" the railways were british thats why it leaves on time " ... imagine saying that these days

Great doco, I love how Miles is always wearing a suit and tie no matter where he is..... a true gentleman of sartorial elegance.

I though that Michael Palin might have done this. But I was forgetting that he had already done this journey 'by frog'.

Kingston must have been the only one travelling in Peru wearingi a suit.

It's one of the best documetaries i've ever seen, brings me memories from those years, when i used to travel from Cusco to Machupicchu -actually many times per year-, but i don't understand why Miles and his team didn't film the route by train from Cusco to Machupicchu (in fact this railway didn't finish in Machupicchu, it use to continue until Quillabamba, 78 kilometers far down the Urubamba river in the jungle of Cusco), which is full of a mixture of andean and jungle landscapes, maybe they had short the time for continue filming in Bolivia, but still it remains for me as a great documentary film, with an extraordinary host... Miles. I love that part (min 25.20) when he says: "another unexplained stop... well all stops are unexplained in Peru" jajajaj

Thanks

40 years later and still one of the best train travel documentaries. Peru/Bolivia, America, Europe, Southern Africa and Australia. All excellent.

it is a shame you have stolen BBC footage to use as an advertising revenue lead source. It is a shame you are not talented then you could make real documentaries for yourself and not ruin BBC product by stuffing adverts into them

Thanks for uploading this piece of history.
By any chance, do you have or know where to find the 1999 Japan episode, Tokyo to Kagoshima? Thanks.

This is epic!!!! and the british sense of humor too!!

Feel so comfortable in the remoteness and in the past..

I was on that train in 1975..no joke!

Wow a most interesting show.