Maras & Moray

Description Tour Maras Moray Salt mines Cusco

With the Tour Maras Moray Salineras Cusco, you can visit the Sacred Valley by an alternate route that will take you to the town of Chinchero, Moray, Maras and the salt mines.

CHINCHERO, is an eminently Inca city that the Spaniards tried to civilize to establish their culture, but did not succeed in its entirety because its inhabitants until now resist to leave their culture and Inca customs. They keep alive the textile culture using and weaving their clothes for use and decoration, so we will visit a Textile Center to teach us how they dye the thread of sheep and alpaca wool with natural dyes and make garments with ancient techniques, such as the use of the “away” and the “loom”.

MARAS, this town is important for the extraction of salt. Since the time of the Incas was very important for the mineral, essential for human consumption and in colonial times continued in the same way.

TOUR MORAY CUSCO, was a center of crop experimentation used by the Incas for the acclimatization of products brought from other areas. Here you can see four concentric circular stone constructions forming a kind of rings that widen as they ascend. Their constructions are supported by strong stone walls; around the main construction one can observe platforms that form a kind of ironwork. There are those who believe that these constructions may have served as terraces or amphitheaters for civic-religious ceremonies and not only for agricultural use.

The tour to Maras – Moray and Salineras is one of the activities that is part of the Sacred Valley and is near the town of Ollantaytambo, Ollantaytambo an Inca town and is where the train station that takes us to Machu Picchu, everyone who comes to Cusco and the Sacred Valley does it in order to make the tour to Machu Picchu.

Enjoy our Maras Moray Salineras Cusco Tour

MAIN POINTS OF VISIT

• Chinchero (3,762 masl)
• Maras (3,385 masl)
• Moray (3,385 masl)

Day 1: Pick up from Hotel – Chinchero – Moray – Maras

• 07.50 – 08.10 hrs The tour starts picking you up at your hotel, immediately in our bus we will leave to the sacred valley by an alternate route to visit:
• 09.10 hrs CHINCHERO, is an eminently Inca city that the Spaniards tried to civilize to establish their culture, but did not succeed in its entirety because its inhabitants until now resist to leave their culture and Inca customs. They keep alive the textile culture using and weaving their garments for use and decoration, so we will visit a Textile Center to teach us how they dye the sheep and alpaca wool yarn with natural dyes and make garments with ancient techniques, such as the use of the “away” and the “loom”.
• 09. 55 hrs MORAY, is 49.3 Km from Cusco and is a unique archaeological group of its kind. These are depressions or gigantic natural holes in the surface of the land, which were used to build terraces or agricultural terraces with irrigation canals in the surroundings. The most interesting thing is the average annual temperature difference between the top and the bottom of the depressions, which reaches up to 15°C in the depression 30 meters deep.
• 11.20 hrs MARAS, we will visit the famous salt mines known by some as “salt mines” which consist of about 3000 small wells with an average area of about 5 m², during the dry season are filled or “watered” every 3 days with salt water emanating from a natural spring located at the top of the wells so that, as the water evaporates, the salt contained in it gradually solidifies (50 min.).
• 13.00 hrs We will start our return to Cusco.
• 14.30 hrs Arrival in Cusco, we will leave you very close to the main square so you can go to the restaurant of your choice for lunch.