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Maras Salt Mines & Moray with Chinchero Excursion
Cusco, Peru
$100
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Overview
Moray Terraces and Maras Salt Mines offer a glimpse into the advanced agricultural practices of the Inca civilization. These remarkable sites showcase historical techniques that are still evident today.
- 🌄 Moray Terraces feature several enormous terraced circular depressions, with the largest being about 100 meters deep.
- 🌊 The temperature differences at Moray, influenced by its depth and orientation to wind and sun, were possibly utilized by the Inca for crop studies.
- 🏞️ Maras Salt Mines have been in use since pre-Inca times, where salt is obtained by evaporating salty water from a nearby stream.
- 💧 Over 3,000 salt-pools exist at Maras, where farmers scrape and collect salt crystals as they precipitate out of supersaturated water.
- 🚫 Note that there are no stated restrictions or prohibitions regarding activities at these sites in the provided description.
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Language: English
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Duration: 7 hours
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- As the oldest living city in the Americas, Cusco has been inhabited continuously for over 3,000 years. It was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th to 16th century until Spanish conquest, and now is a major tourist destination. (pass by)
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Maras Moray ToursThe platforms, built on retaining walls filled with fertile soil and irrigated by complex irrigation systems, allowed to cultivate more than 250 plant species. These platforms served as an Inca agricultural laboratory to experiment with their crops. Moray encloses history and landscape beauty.
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Salinas de MarasThe Salinas de Maras in Cusco, or maras salt mines as they are also called, are salt mines whose exploitation is as old as the Tahuantinsuyo. Located on the slope of the hill, the salt pans in the form of terraces or platforms is crossed by a stream that feeds the pools with salty water.
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Complejo Arqueologico ChincheroThe colours of the rainbow can also be found throughout Chinchero textiles. The 40 adult weavers and 40 children of the community weaving association are masters in the textile art.
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Maras Salt Mines & Moray with Chinchero Excursion
Cusco, Peru
$100
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
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!