Maras Moray and Salt Mines Half day tour

08:20 am Pick up from your accommodation to visit the following places:

Maras: Located west of Cusco at 3300 m.a.s.l. From there you can see the Urubamba mountain range and the snowy peaks of “La Verónica” (5682 meters above sea level) and the “Chikón” (5530 meters above sea level). Its important occupation began when the noble inhabitants of the Inkario were stripped of their palaces in the Qosqo and had then gone out to settle in other small towns like Maras. It has a church made of adobes, typical of the village’s religious architecture, inside the church are kept canvases of the Cusqueña School.

Moray: It is located about 7 km southwest of Maras; It is the only archaeological group of its kind in the region. These are depressions or giant natural holes in the surface of the land that were used to build in their terraces or agricultural services with their controlled irrigation channels, therefore, a prototype of a greenhouse or biological experimental station quite advanced for its time that helped To the American man of antiquity inherent to mankind 60% of the vegetable products he consumes, that the Andean man consumes a thousand and a half of different varieties of potatoes, a hundred and a half of corn, and many other products.

Salineras: o “Salt Mines”: Located northwest of the town of Maras are constituted by about 4000 small wells with an average area of ​​about 5 m², during the dry season they fill or “water” every 3 days with salt water that emanates from a natural spring located in the upper part of the wells so that when the water evaporates, the salt contained in it gradually solidifies, then the salt is beaten and thus granulated; the salt will then be packed in plastic sacks and sent to the region’s markets; Today that salt is being iodized, which is why its consumption is not harmful. Finally, we will be returning to the city of Cusco at approximately 2:30 pm.

Duration: 6 hours approximately.