Tour Salineras Maras Y Andenes De Moray

Start the tour at the office at 08:30 a.m. in our tourist bus to start our visit to the following places:

MARAS:

Located west of Cusco at 3300 m.a.s.l. from there you can see the Urubamba mountain range and the snowy peaks of “La Verónica” (5,682 meters above sea level) and “Chikón” (5,530 meters above sea level). to go out and settle in other small towns like Maras. It has a church made of adobes, typical of small-town religious architecture, inside the church canvases from the Cusqueña School are kept.

MORAY:

It is located about 7 km southwest of Maras; It is a unique archaeological group of its kind in the region. These are gigantic natural depressions or holes in the surface of the land that were used to build terraces or agricultural platforms with their respective irrigation canals in their contours, it is therefore a prototype of a greenhouse or biological experimental station quite advanced for its time that helped to that the American man of antiquity inherited from humanity 60% of the vegetable products he consumes, that the Andean man consumes a thousand and a half different varieties of potatoes, a hundred and a half of corn, and many other products.

SALINERAS: OR “SALT MINES”

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 that emanates from a natural spring located in the part top of the wells so that when the water evaporates, the salt contained in it gradually solidifies, later the salt is hit and thus granulated; the salt will then be bagged in plastic sacks and sent to the markets of the region; Today that salt is being iodized, which is why its consumption is not harmful. Finally we will be returning to the city of Cusco at approximately 3:30 p.m. Duration: 6-7 HOURS approximately

• Recojo de la oficina.
• Bus de turismo
• Guía Profesional.

• Boleto Turistico.
• Ingreso a las salineras : S/ 10.00.
• Gastos Extra.
• Propinas