Maras Moray Half Day Tour

We will pick you up from your hotel at 09:15 hrs. In our bus to start our tour to the following places:

MARAS:

Located west of Cusco at 3300 m.a.s.l. from there you can appreciate the Urubamba mountain range and the peaks of the Veronica (5682 m.a.s.l.) and the Chicon (5530 m.a.s.l.) Its important occupation began when the Cusco Inkan nobles were stripped of their palaces in the Qosqo and had to leave to settle in other small towns like Maras. It has a church made of adobe, typical of provincial religious architecture, inside the church are preserved linen fabrics of the Cusco School.

MORAY:

About 7 km southwest of Maras; it is a unique archeological group of its kind in the region. It is about depressions or gigantic natural holes in the surface of the land that was used to build in its contours terraces or agricultural terraces with their respective irrigation channels, it is therefore a prototype of conservatory or biological experimental station quite advanced for its time that helped the American man of antiquity to inherit to humanity 60% of the vegetable products consumed, the Andean man consumes a thousand and a half of different varieties of potatoes, a hundred and a half of corn, and many, many other products.

SALT MINES:

Or salineras, located northwest of the town of Maras are made up of about 3000 small wells with an average area of about 5 m², during the dry season they are filled or irrigated every 3 days with salt water emanating from a natural spring located at the top of the wells so that when the water evaporates, the salt contained in it gradually solidifies. The salt is then pounded and granulated; the salt water is then bagged in plastic bags and sent to the markets in the region; today this salt is iodized, so its consumption is not harmful.

DURATION: 6-7 hours.

USEFUL INFORMATION:

 Daily departures (Recommended booking in advance).                    

Departure time at the hotel from 8:30 am 03:00 pm approx.

PLACES TO VISIT:  

– Maras Village

– Moray archeological site

– Salt Mines