Maras Moray Salineras Cusco (with entrance fee)

Maras Moray Salineras Cusco (with entrance fee)

Maras and Moray are incredible places. Maras is home to salt mines. Moray has ruins in the form of the Roman Coliseum. On this Maras Moray tour, you will visit the sites that were used for experimentation and investigation of many different agricultural products.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Salinas de Maras, Carreta a Maras, Maras 08655 Peru

The salt mines display a bizarre spectacle of beauty. Located on a wide-open hill above the Urubamba Valley, a natural salt water stream runs underground. In pre-Incan times, they have been evaporating the salty water from this stream in order to obtain the salt that gets left behind.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Moray, Maras 08655 Peru

we continue on a short distance to the Moray ruins. The ruins are composed of three coliseums, which are thought to have been used by the Incas as a sort of open air crop laboratory. The coliseums consist of several enormous terraced circular depressions, the largest of which is about 30m/98ft deep. The purpose of these depressions is still uncertain but their depth and orientation with respect to wind and sun creates a temperature difference of as much as 15 °C/27 °F between the top and bottom.

Duration: 2 hours