Q.R. Riviera Maya — During the recent fair in Berlin, more than 60 Maya Train vacation packages were promoted to German travel agencies. A proposal with 64 package options through the 20 Maya Train stations was delivered to Lernidee Trenes and Cruceros, one of the major tourist train package providers in the world, according to Miguel Torruco Marqués, the Secretary of Tourism for the Government of Mexico.
Updates on the Maya Train project’s status were included with the proposals for tourist packages. He claimed that travel brokers, tour operators, and tourism officials from the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana worked together to agree on the tour packages. Roo.
According to Torruco Marqués, these package deals maximize the use of the existing tourist infrastructure, goods, and services in 40 municipalities and 181 localities. Six Maya Train hotels will also be built, and they will be spread out along the route.
Torruco Marqués explained that the catalog of packages includes 117 attractions of cultural and nature tourism that travelers can enjoy for one to three nights in any given area of the Maya Train stations.
Maya Train travelers can also spend the night aboard the train as they visit attractions along the route such as the 14 Magical Towns, six World Heritage Sites, 18 indigenous paradises, 50 archaeological zones among other destinations.
Torruco Marqués says the Maya Train will consist of 42 trains and 219 cars which will be complemented by suggestions of “The Menus of the Mayan Train Route” made up of 30 of the most representative dishes of the states of the Mexican southeast.
The train’s menu is being designed with advice of Chef Jorge Orozco, which so far includes more than 30 dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, such as chipilín tamales, motuleño eggs, panuchos, cochinita pibil, venison tzic , lime soup, stuffed cheese and papadzules, to name a few.
The train’s dessert menu will consist of traditional marquesitas, the artisanal chocolates, the chocolate cocada and the dulce de nance and regional drinks such as coffee, pozol, water and chaya tea, the pitahaya and lime waters, the xtabentún, the mistela or the Riviera Maya cocktail and the Mexican must-haves such as tequila, mezcal, wine, pulque and craft beers.
