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 ...

Mexico finally cut the ribbon on one of its most ambitious tourism projects yet with the unveiling of El Tren Maya, aka The Maya Train, a new 290-mile track connecting famed archeological sites across ...

The construction of a hotel in Mexico’s Calakmul Biosphere Reserve took many residents by surprise when bulldozers started clearing the forest in January. The hotel is part of the Tren Maya project, a ...

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 ...

When it’s a quick trip from the schlocky pleasures of Cancún to the remote cities of the Maya, is something lost along the way? Cenote Zaci near Valladolid, Mexico.Credit...Matthew Pillsbury for The ...

The nearly $15 billion Tren Maya railway will run 1,500 kilometers (950 miles) across five states in Mexico: Quintana Roo, Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco and Yucatán. Line 5 of the project, which will run ...

To the ancient Maya, the cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula were sacred as they believed them to be portals to the gods of the underworld. These underground caves are also one of the most unspoilt ...

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 ...

Riding the Tren Maya! Join us on a journey through Mexico's new 1500km rail network, from Palenque to Merida. Explore the train, stations, and landscapes in this full review.