Sacred Valley Tour Moray Ruins & Maras Salt Mines Cusco
Moray Ruins & Maras Salt Flats Tour From Cusco
Discover with us these beautiful and unusual places where you will find out why the Incas were the most important civilization in South America.
The Sacred Valley tour & the Salt mines tour will take you through the most impressive and beautiful landscapes of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, where you will be able to appreciate from beautiful lagoons and the imposing snow-capped mountains of the Andes in Cusco. You will also be able to know unique places in all our regions of Peru and the world as the impressive Inca agricultural laboratory of Moray and the salt flats of Maras with more than 5000 salt wells.
Explore with us the Sacred valley of the Incas connect with its people and its beautiful landscapes and learn from our experienced local guides our history.
On this day tour of the Sacred Valley with Moray and Maras Salt Mines we take you to visit places that will leave you stunned by the impressions you get when you find out how they were built. We will start by visiting Chinchero where you will do a short but interesting tour of the archaeological site where you will see terraces of crops and giant walls built many years before the time of the Incas.
Then you will visit a unique and mysterious place: the archaeological site of Moray. Archaeologists still do not have all the answers about how this amazing place could have worked with circular terraces although it is believed that it was a greenhouse due to its microclimates at different levels.
Who hasn’t heard of our Salt Pans in the Sacred Valley of the Incas? It still works in the same way as our ancestors used to do thousands of years ago. See more than 5000 salt wells where the inhabitants of the area still extract the salt just like the Incas did. You will also have the opportunity to taste the different types of salt.
Our Maras Moray and Salt ponds tour can be customized to your interest. This tour can also start from Ollantaytambo or Urubamba, for this you only have to request it.
Trip Overview
- Tour Type: Sightseeing Tour, Cultural & History
- Schedules: We pick you up at 7:00am / Drop off in Cusco
- Meeting Place: From your hotel in Cusco or Cusco airport
- End of the Tour: Cusco
- Group Size: Minimum 02 people to confirm departure
- Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
Highlights.- Our Maras Moray Inca site & Salt Ponds tour will let you show the most beautiful and unusual sites which will blow your mind away.
- Private transportation
- Private service
- Professional highly trained native tour guides
- Visit a local family in Chinchero
- Explore in one day the most popular sites in Cusco
- Local company
Detailed Itineray of Moray & Maras Salt Mines
Our Moray & Salt Mines Perú tour starts at 7 am from your hotel. We start our tours earlier than other tour companies so that we can hit the crowd and have the place to ourselves. We head to the town of Maras. This village is known as a former salt-producing center that is thought to date back all the way to pre-Inca times. There are over 5000 salt pools all carved into the mountain side, being filled daily by a little stream of water. Here our guide will explain you the whole process step by step of how now locals still get the salt from their pools by evaporation in the traditional way.
After this we head to Moray a beautiful Inca site of Maras where you will be taught about the Inca farming techniques. Moray boasts three amphitheater-like terraces made by the Incas. These terraces which are carved deep into the earth in a bowl shape were thought to be used to determine the optimal conditions for growing crops. Along the way we will stop off at lookout points where you will have the most beautiful views of the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Later on we will visit the ruins of Chinchero and a local family where you will learn about one of their main activities (the Inca textiles) We finish our tour at 3:00 pm in Cusco. If you want to visit also Ollantaytambo please just request it.
If you want to see something really different from ruins, then this is your tour!
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Round-trip transportation (tourist bus).
- English-speaking Tour Guide.
- Entrance fees to the salt mines
WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED:
- Tourist Ticket for archeological sites 70 soles.
- Lunch (Optional)
- Tips
Advantages of booking with us.- Comeseeperu tours is a local company in Cusco, the tour includes pick up from your hotel door. We include the ticket to the Salt Mines.
WHAT YOU NEED TO TAKE:
- For this tour in Cusco, it is necessary to bring a jacket or short wind.
- If you do this tour during the months of December to March, it is recommended to bring an umbrella or jacket for rain.
- The scenery is magnificent and we recommend that you bring a camera or film camera. There is nothing better after a trip than to open a thick photo album and share the memory of the moments lived with friends or family. The sensations, the people and the places they visited will make them relive anecdotes that they will never forget.
- Wear: sneakers, light shoes or tennis shoes.
- Drink liquid on your excursions.
- Sunscreen, wide brimmed hat for sunny days.
- Medicine and/or personal items (contact lens fluid).
- One lightweight backpack or briefcase per person.
- Carry coins in small denominations of dollars or soles.
Optionals
- General Tourist Ticket S/. 130.00 (Foreigners)
- General Tourist Ticket S/. 70.00 (Peruvians)
- Partial Tourist Ticket S/. 70.00 (Foreigners)
- Partial Tourist Ticket S/. 40.00 (Peruvians)
Town of Maras
Maras is a district of Urubamba that was an important town in the time of the viceroyalty (it was the main supplier of salt of the southern mountain range), To if they demonstrate it the church and the casonas that still preserve the shields of indigenous nobility in their facades, it is for that reason that the houses are of adobe, white walls with ceilings and blue windows and the streets are of stone and mud, therefore the thresholds of the doors are of stone and can be found the date in which they were constructed, their owner or some shield or ornament.
Terraces of Moray:
Moray is located about 7 kilometers from the town of maras, and is a unique archaeological site in the region of Cusco. This place is composed of circular terraces with irrigation channels that conformed a great agricultural laboratory a prototype of a giant greenhouse, in this place the ancient Peruvians experimented and obtained improvements of plants of different latitudinal floors of Peru.
On the other hand the Andean man consumed a thousand and a half of diverse varieties of potatoes, a hundred and a half of corn, and many other products of these terraces, and also it has great Andean religious importance and inspires a great mysticism to the people specialized in the subject, for this reason currently preserved as a center of Ritual of offerings to the Pachamama.
Salt Maras or Salt Mines:
The salt mines of Maras are located to the northwest of the District of Maras in the slope of a hill, then this place has approximately 3000 small wells of salt that are filled with salty water in the epoch of drought that flows of a natural spring that is in the superior part of the wells to then crystallize so that the use of these wells are inherited from many years back of family in family and their existence and exploitation is believed that it is from the beginning of Tahuantinsuyo, Therefore in this tour to Maras Moray and Salineras you will be able to take a souvenir of salt and take magnificent photographs of the unique landscape of this place.
Chinchero Ruins:
The town of Chinchero lies in the Sacred Valley of Perú between Urubamba and Cusco. The ruins of Chinchero consist of agricultural terraces and temples built by pre-inca civilizations far before the incas, the site could have been used as a country resort but it was mostly used for farming and religious purposes.
Our Travelers interested in visiting Maras and Moray were asked the following questions.
1) When is the best time to visit Maras and Moray?
The dry season (April to October) is the best time to visit Maras and Moray. These months it is more probable to enjoy a sunny day, although the sun is strong; the landscapes look better; the only thing you should take into account is to bring water, use a sun blocker and a hat to protect us from UV rays.
2) Can I suffer from altitude sickness in Maras and Moray?
Our highest point is in Chinchero at 3750 meters (12303.15 ft) and our lowest point during the tour is the town of Maras found at 3300 meters, (10826.77 ft) if you have been in Cusco at least 1 day before the tour, or if you visit it after your visit to Machu Picchu then the probability of suffering from altitude sickness is low.
3) Is the tour to Maras and Moray dangerous?
The only problem during the tour can be caused by altitude sickness (headache, nausea, malaise). This tour is quite safe
4) How can I make my reservation for the Maras y Moray tour?
You can pay with by PayPal.
Make the payment (at least 40% of the value of the tour).
Once in Cusco (at least 1 day before), complete the entire price of the tour in cash.
5) Is this tour flexible?
We believe every traveller is different so make your trip your own “WE LIKE YOUR TRAVEL STYLE”
Prices
¿Why choose our private service?
- Small groups
- Personalized service
- Make stops at your will
- Take your time to take pictures
- Avoid the 30+ people bilingual group services
- Avoid the shopping stop tours to the Sacred Valley
IMPORTANT:
PRICE PER PERSON
USD 80.00 per person for two people
If your group consists of more than 6 people, ask for a super discount
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Reservation deposits can be paid through PayPal or Western Union.
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“No Paypal fees with Come See Perú Tours”
To secure a booking with Come See Perú Tours, the Client must deposit 40% of the entire price of the tour. You will receive a confirmation email for the tour, the total balance mus be paid in cash before the start of the tour in cusco.
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