Ask any local about Cancun and they’ll tell you it’s not the real Mexico. It’s a metropolis of foreign-owned, all-inclusive high-rises available on package holidays – somewhere designed as an easy fly ...

Want to take Mayan Train in Mexico (but feel confused)? As someone who's ridden it, my Ultimate Guide to Mexico's Tren Maya ...

Mexico’s latest major endeavor, El Tren Maya, is officially partially running. Billed “the greatest construction project in the world,” is causing a stir, and rightly so. Though it will boost the ...

Mexico has a new multibillion-dollar rail network called the Tren Maya. It’s projected to bring more tourists to the impoverished Yucatan Peninsula, but environmentalists say it’s an environmental ...

The clear-cut through the forest in Mexico’s southeast is long (the section shown above will be 121 kilometers, about 75 miles), 40 meters (131 feet) wide, and as straight as modern engineering can ...

Chichén Itzá is one of Mexico’s most famous archaeological sites, one of the new 7 Wonders of the World and an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Temple of Kukulcán is the most recognized structure, but ...

More than just a train, the scale of the project is enormous. And its effects are already visible. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the laying of the first stone of the Tren ...

President López Obrador had previously assured that a portion of the Maya Train, designed to run on an elevated causeway, would avoid disrupting the caves and sinkhole lakes. Activists in Mexico have ...

Is the Tren Maya fully open? The Tren Maya (Mayan Train) passenger railway began operations in late-2023, though it wasn’t fully complete at the time. As of December 2024, all of the Mayan Train route ...