(18 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ollantaytambo, Cusco, Peru – 17 September 2025
1. Tourists standing at closed entrance of train station
2. Tourists waiting
3. Tourists approaching entrance to read signs, another talking to police officers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergio Romano, Italian tourist, waiting to travel to Machu Picchu:
"Impossible. No, it’s impossible to go to Machu Picchu, the train is the only option but it’s impossible to go."
5. Various tourists reading the train company’s announcements
6. Tourists waiting at entrance
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roxana Ricchi, tourist:
"We had tickets for today. The travel agency told us to go to the station because there was a chance a train could leave. Unfortunately, there is no authority to defend the interests of tourists, so it looks like there will be no trains today.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru – 28 October 2020
8. Various shots of Machu Picchu
PERU’S PRESIDENCY
Lima, Peru – 17 September 2025
9. Mayors of Cusco region meeting with Peru’s national government officials
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Desilú León, Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru:
"Right now, what we need is to guarantee the safety of tourists, both when entering and leaving Machu Picchu, and this is what we are working on. The Ministry of the Interior has been actively collaborating in helping to provide security for tourists."
11. Meeting
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Desilú León, Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru:
"Indeed, the concessionary in charge of the track needs to make sure that the problems that have arisen are not happening again, those acts of vandalism to the railroad tracks, putting the tourists’ safety at risk."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Aguas Calientes, Cusco, Peru – 21 June 2016
13. Train arriving to "Machu Picchu Station"
14. Tourists exiting station
15. Railroad and Aguas Calientes town
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of tourists stranded on their way to Machu Picchu queued on Wednesday morning waiting for the noon train in Ollantaytambo, where they were left without an opportunity to visit Peru’s landmark archaeological site.
While they waited for their turn to board a train inside, some 900 were still being evacuated from Aguas Calientes, the closest town to Machu Picchu.
The company operating the railroad said later on Wednesday that it had restarted operations.
Early in September, residents commenced their protests to demand that a new company take over the concession of the local bus company on the final leg of the path.
Peru’s Ombudsman office said it reached an agreement with the protesters to lift the blockade for over 72 hours.
If the period had allowed thousands to leave, the government said operators should ensure the safety of the tourists.
"The concessionary in charge of the track needs to make sure that the problems that have arisen are not happening again, those acts of vandalism to the railroad tracks, putting the tourists’ safety at risk," said Desilú León, Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru.
The citadel was built in the 15th century as a religious sanctuary for the Incas and is located in the Amazon region of southeastern Peru, at an altitude of 2,490 meters.
Machu Picchu generates more than 66,000 jobs, but for years it has been the subject of complaints from tourists because they cannot find tickets in advance, the services are informal, and the population, dissatisfied with the distribution of tourism benefits, has blocked roads.
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