Moray and Salt Mines of Maras

We will recognize from your hotel on the way to the town of Maras, you will notice very old buildings that date back to the colonial era and you will also notice that almost every old house has furniture shields since once in the past the Inca royalty lived, along with the Spanish nobles. who controlled the salt mine business. Then we will go to the archaeological site of Moray, which is a complex of circular terraces, where in the time of the Incas they were used for agricultural experimentation because the terraces have different temperatures. After visiting Moray we will head towards the salt mines which are actually a spring of salt water and the salt water runs through a main channel and flowing to others thus filling the small drying pits, where once full we only wait for evaporation. from salt water obtaining the mineral for human and animal consumption. After visiting the entire route we will head back to the city of Cusco approximately 2:30 p.m.