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Maras Moray Salt Mines Tour

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HALF DAY
Availability : EVERYDAY
CUSCO - MORAY- SALT MINES
SALT MINES - MORAY - CUSCO
Min Age : 8+
Max People : 2 - 10

Maras Moray Salt Mines Day Tour

This tour is a lovely way to begin acclimatizing to the high altitude of Cusco and get ready for a trek if you have booked one. MARAS is a beautiful little town that maintains some of its architectural colonial charm. You can see amazing facades made of thin stone, lintels with sculptures in bas-relief and learn about textile weaving. At the MORAY ruin site, located at 3,450m/11,319ft, you can explore circular agricultural terraces with a complex system of irrigation. These terraces served as a natural green house to grow an extraordinary variety of crops at an altitude that they would typically only grow in the tropical Andes. It has also been suggested that they had a cosmological meaning. SALINERAS is a vast salt mine set in a breathtaking little valley in the Andean mountains. This tour has become quite popular recently and can be added on to any other treks or tours to have the complete Cusco experience!

Tour Highlight

  • Weaving center of Chinchero
  • Salineras or salt mines 
  • Maras and Moray
  • Sacred Valley View
  • Snow cup Mountain
Itinerary

DAY TOUR:SALT MINES - MARAS - MORAY - CUSCO

You will be collected from your hotel in Cusco around 8:30am and driven with your guide to Maras, a beautiful little colonial village. At Maras you will see the colonial architecture with beautiful stone work and sculpture and learn about traditional textile techniques. You’ll have the opportunity to purchase some textiles here if you wish. We then drive to Moray where you can explore the incredible and still mysterious circular agricultural terraces that are surrounded by stunning mountain scenery. Finally, we will visit the salt mines (Salineras) where you can view the 3000 salt pools and watch the salt miners harvesting the salt of the Incas! As of June 2019 the Salt Mines are viewable only from above as the walkways between the pools are now closed due to damage from over-tourism. They are still beautiful and well worth the view. Salineras has a cute little shop where you can buy some hand mined Andean salt to take home with you if you wish. After seeing Salineras we take our private transport back to your hotel in Cusco.

  • Meeting point: your hotel in Cusco
  • Tour departure: 8:30am
  • Tour finish time: approximately 1:30pm
  • Daily departures with 2+ people
Includes
  • Tourist Bus
  • English speaking guide
  • Entrance fee for moray
  • Entrance fee for Salt pond
  • lunch near by piuray lake with amazing view ( having lunch by piuray lake is a unique experience and also no many companies offer lunch at this spot
Doesn't Include
  • lunch 
  • water
  • snack
  • tips
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