Description
This wonderful half day excursion will take us to know a part of the sacred valley visiting the archaeological site of Moray with its circular terraces and the salt mines of Maras that today the inhabitants of the community of Pichingoto and Maras continue extracting the salt with the same technique and in the same way that their ancestors extracted the salt from the Incas. On this tour you will also be able to appreciate wonderful landscapes, mountains, ravines, flora, fauna and the way of life of the people of the area.
- Price: 15.00 US dollars per person.
- Confirmed departures: Every day.
- Schedule: 8:30 hours a 14:30 hours.
- Duration: 06 hours approximately.
Tour Details
Pick up.
Professional guide.
Tourist transport.
Partial Tourist Ticket: 40 soles for Peruvian and 70 soles for foreigners.
Entrance to the salt mines (10 Soles per person).
Lunch.
If you are also planning to do the excursion to the Sacred Valley, south valley, city tour. it is actually better to buy the general tourist ticket which is 130 soles for foreigners and 70 soles for Peruvians (which gives you access to other sites in the Sacred Valley AND some museums and attractions in Cusco and is valid for 10 days).
Original passport or ID card.
For students: valid physical student card issued by your university (50% discount on the tourist ticket).
A warm jacket.
Water.
Hat.
Sunscreen.
Money in soles.
Itinerary
Half Day | Maras Moray Salineras
Our tour starts with the pick up from your accommodation at 8:30 am in our tourist transport we will make our first stop in Moray, where agricultural terraces were built with their irrigation canals, it is a prototype of a greenhouse, the hole has a depth greater than 150 m and average height is 1.80 meters platforms between one and another. Then we will go to the city of Maras, on the way we will cross by popular and very typical places, also we can see beautiful landscapes that we enjoy in our trip we will visit natural salt mines 3000 small wells, which are filled with salt water from natural water source located in the same place, this salt mine and were exploited since the time of the Inca and these were used as a means of economic exchange, today even these salt mines are still exploited by the local population, for consumption in the region.
MARAS
Located to the west of Cusco at 3300 m.a.s.l. from there you can see the Urubamba mountain range and the snowy peaks of “La Veronica” (5682 m.a.s.l.) and the “Chikon” (5530 m.a.s.l.) Its important occupation began when the Cusco nobles of the Inkan era were stripped of their palaces in the Qosqo and had to leave to settle in other small towns like Maras. It has a church made of adobe bricks, typical of the religious architecture of the village. Inside the church there are canvases of the Cusco School.
Town of Maras
MORAY
It is located about 7 km southwest of Maras; it is the only archaeological group of its kind in the region. It is about depressions or gigantic natural holes in the surface of the land that were used to build terraces or agricultural terraces with their respective irrigation channels, it is therefore a prototype of greenhouse or biological experimental station quite advanced for its time that helped the American man of the antiquity to inherit to the humanity 60% of the vegetable products that he consumes, that the Andean man consumes a thousand and a half of diverse varieties of potatoes, a hundred and a half of maize, and many other products.
SALINERAS
Located to the northwest of the town of Maras are made up of about 3000 small wells with an average area of about 5 m², during the dry season they are filled or “irrigated” 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, later the salt is beaten and thus granulated; The salt is then bagged in sacks by the villagers and sent to the markets of the region, then we will return in our tourist transport to the city of Cusco arriving as the final point of the tour to the San Francisco square.
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