With 34 stations, routes that undergo 46 archeological websites, and tracks that cowl greater than 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) round Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the Maya Practice is about to debut this December with ticket costs of 4.35 pesos per kilometer traveled (about 26 cents) for worldwide riders.
The objective of Tren Maya, or the Maya Practice, is to attach vacationer areas with historic Mayan websites, encouraging exploration and enhancing tourism all through the peninsula, typically often known as the Riviera Maya. Till this week, although, costs for tickets had not been introduced.
Fares might be depending on a wide range of components, together with “if the passengers are native, if they’re nationwide, if they’re worldwide, if they’ll obtain subsidies or not, if the season is common, whether it is excessive season, the gap and a kilometer issue per passenger,” defined Basic Lozano Águila, Basic Director of Maya Practice, in an interview on Radio Fórmula Digital.
Maya Practice could have stops in Mexico’s southeastern states of Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Chiapas, Tabasco and Campeche. One of many certain-to-be-popular routes connecting vacationer sizzling spots Cancun and Tulum might be 121 km and would price about US$30 for worldwide vacationers. Equally, the 257-km journey from Cancun to Izamal would price US$66, according to The Cancun Sun newspaper.
The areas that the Maya Practice will attain are presently tougher for vacationers to maneuver between. A customer touchdown on the airport in Cancun, for instance, can get to inns within the metropolis however could have a more durable time leaving the town to discover the area’s cultural and historic websites. To facilitate higher entry to the world, the vacationer routes on the prepare are deliberate to start and finish on the Cancun Airport cease.
Lozano Águila stated there are a number of deliberate choices for vacationers, together with multiple-day packages that embody stops at as many as 100 points of interest like archeological websites and nature parks. The trains could have accessible business-class seats, eating choices, and personal sleeping areas with loos. Residents who don’t plan to reap the benefits of these facilities can journey extra inexpensively across the Yucatan space.
Underneath development since 2020, the Maya Practice is a well-liked undertaking for politicians like Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who hopes to extend tourism and the financial boosts it brings alongside the Riviera Maya, a historically poorer space of the nation.
