Maras Moray salt mines 1/2 day
From USD $19 /pp
Duration: 1/2 Day / 0 Nights
The journey begins: Your hotel
Foods: 0 B, 0 L, 0 D, 0 SNACKS
Availability: Daily departures
Group Size: Min:1 PERSON
Difficulty Level: LIGHT
Maras Moray salt mines 1/2 day
Maras Moray salt mines
Two incredible destinations, an Inca agricultural laboratory in Moray and an ancient salt mine in Maras, which is still exploited today. A trip that shows the scenic beauty of the upper parts of the Sacred Valley of the Incas
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What includes?
- Tourist bus transfers, round trip.
- Group guiding service by a professional English – Spanish guide.
What is not included?
- Entrance fees to Moray and Salineras.
- Hotel night in Cusco.
- Feeding.
- Other services not mentioned.
What to bring to the tour?
Before booking:
- To reserve this excursion, a minimum of 48 hours in advance is required.
- Shared service: if the minimum group is not reached, the reservation is subject to change of date or cancellation.
- A minimum of 2 participants is required for the private service.
- The excursion is carried out in two languages: English and Spanish.
Before travelling:
- Light clothing.
- Warm clothes.
- Rain clothing (if it is the season).
- Resistant footwear.
- Camera and/or video camera.
- Hat or cap to protect yourself from the sun, rain and cold.
- Sunscreen.
- Toilet paper, inside and outside the luggage.
- Snacks: cookies, energy bars, chocolates, fruit, granola, etc.
- Cash – in national currency and preferably in a lower denomination for snacks and souvenirs.
Tour: Cusco → Moray → Maras → Cusco
This trip begins at 8:30 a.m. along the road that connects Cusco with Urubamba, taking a detour that allows you to reach Moray, a place that is surprising due to its characteristics, it is a complex of perfectly circular terraces, located in a hollow of uncertain origin, which has been used as laboratory for the acclimatization of plants to different altitudinal levels and for obtaining corn and potato seeds, archaeological excavations and scientific observations have also concluded that the place is never flooded despite its sunken conical shape.
Las Salineras de Maras is a place where salt has been exploited or processed with flooding and evaporation drying techniques on thousands of small terraces in the sun since time immemorial, the white and brown color of the pools and the aridity of the territories. surrounding areas forms a spectacular desert landscape that is worth seeing. At present, two Quechua communities have inherited the techniques and use of this place and the product they extract comes from a single spring that passes through a deposit of pure rock salt in the earth’s crust, which makes it highly valued by its characteristics of purity and flavor due to the growing boom in the country’s gastronomy.
Note Tour cost:
- Peruvians and Andean Community $16
- Foreigners $19
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