Maras Salt mines & Moray Half Day Tour

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6 hours (approximately)
Pickup offered
Offered in: English and 1 more

Have a closer look at Incan ingenuity by contemplating the outstanding and enigmatic Moray
Enjoy the beautiful terraces of Maras as you learn from salt elaboration in hands of their inhabitants and join in to participate and test the different types of their products.

What's Included

Spanish/ English-speaking guide
Pick-up from Cusco downtown hotels only
Transportation
Lunch
Entrance fees
Gratuities

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points
You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).
Pickup details:

Pick-up from Cusco downtown hotels only. If your hotel is located far from downtown, please head to the meeting point location

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Meeting point

If your hotel is located far from Cusco downtown, please make sure to be near the water fountain, our staff will be looking for you.

End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Duration: 6 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    Moray

    Have a morning pick-up from your hotel and continue on a 40 minutes ride enjoying the beautiful scenery of the Andes until arriving Moray, an admirable Inca experimental farm, where a natural depression has been transformed in enormous terraces superimposed in concentric forms with a shape of a great coliseum, achieving up to 150 meters in different height levels. The purpose of these depressions is still uncertain; altough is considered that perhaps Moray was an Inca agricultural experiment station. As with many other Inca sites, it also has a sophisticated irrigation system. Discover more about it during your visit.

    45 minutes • Admission ticket not included
  • 2
    Salinas de Maras

    Next, explore the Maras Salt-mines, also called Salinas de Maras, which have been used since Inca times. People channel the salt water that bubbles to the surface from a spring called Qoripujio towards men-made wells. From the exposure to the sun, water evaporates and the salt remains on the surface to be transported later to the market to be sold. The view of this complex of nearly 3000 salt wells is spectacular.

    45 minutes • Admission ticket not included
  • 3
    Chinchero

    Local people happily demonstrate the ancient textile techniques to visitors, even allowing them to participate with them. After this visit, it’s time to take the transportation back to Cusco downtown.

    30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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