Private tour tour Maras & Moray half day in Cusco

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  We’ll pick up you from your hotel at 08:15 hrs on our private car to start the tour. We’ll visit the first point in Chinchero town, a place where local people do typical alpaca wool fabrics. Where we have a short demonstration of the Incas processes used for the production of textiles

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2
  Moray

  We continue with a visit to Moray, about 7 km southwest of Maras; it is the only archaeological site of this kind in the entire region. It consists of depressions or natural gigantic holes that were used by the Incas to build terraces in the contours, agricultural terraces with their respective irrigation canals, they were used as a prototype of greenhouse or experimental biological station advanced for that time, and it helped to the antiquity American men to inherit to the humanity 60% of vegetable products consumed today. For example they obtained more five thousand varieties of potatoes, one hundred and fifty of maize, varieties of quinoa and many other products.

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included
• 3
  Salinas de Maras

  We’ll continue with a visit to Salineras or salt mines that are exploited since the Inca period to the present day, Salineras is located northwest of the town of Maras, is constituted by about 3000 small wells of salt with an average area of about 5 m² each one, during the dry season these well are filled every 3 days with salt water emanating from a natural spring located at the top of the wells, the water evaporates and the salt contained in it, gradually solidifies , then this salt is granulated to be bagged in sacks and plastics, which are then shipped to markets of the region for sale. Finally we will return to Cusco at approximately 14:30 hrs.

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included

Additional info

• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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