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Maras, Moray, Salt Mines Cusco Tour (economical Opcion - Group Tour) 10% OFF
Cusco, Peru
$27
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Overview
The Maras, Moray, and Salt Mines Cusco Tour offers a captivating half-day adventure in the sacred valley of Cusco. Ideal for morning explorers, this tour showcases remarkable historical and agricultural sites.
- 🗺️ Visit the impressive Terraces of Moray, renowned for their innovative agricultural design and ancient irrigation systems.
- 🧂 Discover the Salt Mines of Cusco, where traditional salt extraction methods have been practiced since the Inca period.
- 🌄 Experience breathtaking views of the Urubamba mountain range and the snow-capped peaks of Veronica and Chikon during your journey.
- 🚌 Pickup from your hotel at 08:15 hrs ensures a convenient start to your adventure.
- 👨🏫 A professional bilingual guide (English/Spanish) will enrich your visit with fascinating insights and historical context.
- 💰 Entrance tickets are included: $3 for the Salt Mines and $22 for Moray, with the option to use your previous Sacred Valley tourist ticket.
- 🍽️ Enjoy snacks and drinks throughout the tour, keeping you refreshed as you explore.
- 🌟 Suitable for all physical fitness levels, making it an accessible experience for everyone.
- ⏰ Return to Cusco is at approximately 15:00 hrs, giving you a full morning of exploration.
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Maras, Moray, Salt Mines Cusco Tour (economical Opcion - Group Tour)
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
- Professional Guide for the tour (BILINGUE: English / Spanish)
- Tourist Transport
- Tips, snacks and drinks
- Entrance ticket to Salineras or Salt Mines (3 dollars per person)
- Entrance Ticket to Moray USD 22.00 (You can use the tourist Ticket you used in the sacred valley)
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Maras Moray ToursWe’ll pick up you from your hotel at 08:15 hrs on our bus to start the tour. We’ll visit the first point, the town of MARAS, located west of Cusco at 3300 m.a.s.l. from where it’ll possible to appreciate the mountain range of Urubamba and the snowy peaks of "Veronica" (5682 m.a.s.l) and "chikon" (5530 m.a.s.l). Maras’s history dates back to the colony when the nobles from the Inca Empire were stripped of their palaces in Cuzco or Qosqo and began to settle in other small towns like Maras. The church of Maras made of clay is a typical religious architecture of the colony, it save paintings of what was the Escuela Cusqueña (Cusco School). 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.
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Salinas de MarasWe’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 15:00 hrs.
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Maras, Moray, Salt Mines Cusco Tour (economical Opcion - Group Tour) 10% OFF
Cusco, Peru
$27
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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