Latin America is beautiful by train. But whether it’s affordable depends on where you are. Peru has the priciest train travel in our study, by quite a gap. A trip from Lima to Huancayo by train covers just 200km at a cost of $139. On the other hand, Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Argentina can be traversed by train for pocket change.
Africa is the cheapest region to get about by train. Even Morocco, the most expensive African nation in our study, only costs 1/7th of the price of a Peruvian rail journey. A significant pattern can be spotted on our heat map of Europe, where train travel gets cheaper the further east you go.
