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Private Maras Salt Mines, Moray & Andean Community Day Tour
Cusco, Peru
$256
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Overview
Maras and Moray unveil the hidden treasures of the Inca Valley, where stunning landscapes meet intriguing historical structures. The gleaming salt fields of Maras create a breathtaking contrast against the lush green valleys, inviting you to delve into their rich heritage.
- 🏷️ Private Service: Enjoy a personalized experience with a dedicated tour guide fluent in English, ensuring an enriching exploration of these iconic sites.
- 🚐 Pickup Included: Convenient hotel pickup and drop-off services are provided, allowing you to relax and focus on the journey ahead.
- 🌄 Maras features salt fields that are remarkable for their beauty, showcasing hundreds of terraced ponds that glisten under the sun.
- 🔍 Moray's circular depressions, believed to be an ancient agricultural laboratory, offer a fascinating glimpse into Inca ingenuity.
- 💧 Both sites highlight advanced irrigation systems and terracing techniques, showcasing the architectural prowess of the Incas.
- 🕒 The tour lasts approximately 6 hours, providing ample time to immerse yourself in the history and beauty of the region.
- 🌍 After exploring Maras, visit the charming village of Ccorcco, renowned for its traditional Andean weaving techniques still practiced by the locals.
- 📍 The tour includes entrance fees to Maras Salineras, ensuring you can fully experience the wonders of this unique landscape.
- 🚗 Relax as you enjoy a scenic drive back to Cusco, reflecting on the incredible sights and stories you've encountered.
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Private Service
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 6 hours
- Professional tour guide (English and Spanish)
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Entrance fee for Maras Salineras
- Gratuities
- Lunch (can be requested at least one day in advance - 50 to 60 soles)
- Cusco tourist ticket (This ticket is required for entrance to Moray)
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MarasOur first stop is Maras, from which, we can get to the salt mines. The salt mines display a bizarre spectacle of beauty. Located on a wide-open hill above the Urubamba Valley, a natural salt water stream runs underground. In pre-Incan times, they have been evaporating the salty water from this stream in order to obtain the salt that gets left behind. How it works: The highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. The water, which is exposed to the sun, leaves salt on the land. Viewed from the peak, the myriad of rectangles looks like an enormous painting designed by nature.
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Maras Moray ToursAfter visiting the salt mines near Maras, we continue on a short distance to the Moray ruins. The ruins are composed of three coliseums, which are thought to have been used by the Incas as a sort of open air crop laboratory. The coliseums consist of several enormous terraced circular depressions, the largest of which is about 30m/98ft deep. The purpose of these depressions is still uncertain but their depth and orientation with respect to wind and sun creates a temperature difference of as much as 15 °C/27 °F between the top and bottom. This large temperature difference was possibly used by the Incas to study the effects of different climatic conditions on crops. The terraces are arranged in concentric circles and are reminiscent of an ancient Greek theatre.
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Afterward, visit the village of Ccorcco (Chincheros) to the northwest of Cusco. This picturesque village was an important Inca center and is known for the traditional Andean weaving techniques still used by its people. After this fantastic visit, we will drive back to Cusco.
If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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Private Maras Salt Mines, Moray & Andean Community Day Tour
Cusco, Peru
$256
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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