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Private tourOnly your group will participate
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below
Overview
This is a half day tour that you can do if you are in Cusco city .
The tour to Maras Moray is a traditional and cultural tour that is recomended for familys, this is a regular tour where you dont need to walk a lot.
You will visit the circular terraces of Moray as well as the Salt Mines, 2 beautifull places of the sacred valley, also if you are interested to buy typical alpaca wool fabricsf from locals, this is a great oportunity to dont miss this tour.
Options
VAN (MAX. 15 PEOPLE)
VAN
Pickup included
MINIVAN (MAX. 7 PEOPLE)
MINIVAN
Pickup included
CAR (MAX. 3 PEOPLE)
CAR - TAXI
Pickup included
What's included
Private tourist Transport
Private tour guide
Meals, snacks, others
Salinas de Maras
Moray
What to expect
Centro Textil Acllas
30m
We’ll pick up you from your hotel at 08:15 hrs on our private car to start the tour. We’ll visit the first point in Chinchero town, a place where local people do typical alpaca wool fabrics. Where we have a short demonstration of the Incas processes used for the production of textiles
Maras Moray Tours
1h · Admission ticket not included
We continue with a visit to Moray, about 7 km southwest of Maras; it is the only archaeological site of this kind in the entire region. It consists of depressions or natural gigantic holes that were used by the Incas to build terraces in the contours, agricultural terraces with their respective irrigation canals, they were used as a prototype of greenhouse or experimental biological station advanced for that time, and it helped to the antiquity American men to inherit to the humanity 60% of vegetable products consumed today. For example they obtained more five thousand varieties of potatoes, one hundred and fifty of maize, varieties of quinoa and many other products.
Salinas de Maras
1h · Admission ticket not included
We’ll continue with a visit to Salineras or salt mines that are exploited since the Inca period to the present day, Salineras is located northwest of the town of Maras, is constituted by about 3000 small wells of salt with an average area of about 5 m² each one, during the dry season these well are filled every 3 days with salt water emanating from a natural spring located at the top of the wells, the water evaporates and the salt contained in it, gradually solidifies , then this salt is granulated to be bagged in sacks and plastics, which are then shipped to markets of the region for sale.
Finally we will return to Cusco at approximately 14:30 hrs.
Meeting and pickup
Pickup details
You need to provide us the name of your hotel or the address of your accomodation in Cusco.
Additional information
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
