Live a cultural experience touring the agricultural platforms of Moray, which in Inca times was a research center for the study of crops. Then visit the Salt Mines of Maras, place where salt is extracted by hand.
1/2 Day
Daily Tour
Spanish, English
15 people
The tour begins with the pick-up from the hotel from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m., immediately we will begin the journey in a northwesterly direction from the city of Cusco, passing through very typical populations of beautiful landscapes, the first point of visit will be the town of Maras , from where you can see the Vilcanota mountain range summits covered with perpetual snow-capped mountains such as; the snow-capped mountains "El Chicón" and "La Verónica", then we will visit the Archaeological Complex of Moray, a set of enormous terraces that overlap concentrically in a gigantic hole, which in the time of the Incas served for the study of agriculture. Then we will visit the Salineras that are made up of about 2000 small wells with an average area of about 5 m², exploited since the Inca times, colonial times and that are still being exploited by the locals. After our visit we will return to the city of Cusco. Arriving in the City of Cusco at 2:00 p.m. approximately.