Maras Salt Mines & Moray Terraces – Full Day Cultural Tour From Cusco

To start our tour for Moray and Salinas de Maras we come to your hotel around 7:30 in the morning yeah early start but worth it. For do this we take you to Moray Inca site and the Salinas Salt Mines of Maras in our van private transport. On the way drive we show you nice views Andean landscapes mountains and trees maybe see wild animals like vicuñas or something cool yeah.

First we visit the Inca site Moray archaeological center it’s about 38 kilometers from Cusco city easy drive. Moray is like agricultural laboratory yeah built in shape of rings circles concentric shape special for 4 muyus or circles Inca word for circles you know those circles in steps going down in ground. The deepest circle is like 80 meters deep man very deep! And each level andén the step is less than 36 meters wide around circle. Moray site altitude about 11580 feet (3530 meters) up there fresh air.

Inside these circle terraces they get different temperatures changes from 0.5 to 1.5 degrees Celsius change in temperature between levels yeah in different times. This way they could make like 20 different types of microclimates small weather areas in one place. So people think the idea for this Inca site Moray was for try grow different plants crops that no grow normally in this area experiment with farming very smart Incas.

After Moray we go see salt marshes of Maras the famous salt mines really something. In Maras Salt Mines many many minas salt pools yeah like 3000 pozas pequeñas small pools all together. Each poza pool make around 50 to 80 kilos of salt every time they get salt good amount yeah. People say in time of Incas this salt from Maras was used to supply mineral salt to all Cusco city and all alrededores areas around Cusco yeah big supply. These pozas pools they get water from anantial spring of water salty water underground spring water yeah. This process all natural no machine no nothing very old way. When time for cultivation site grow salt you know the salt from Maras very famous solicitada people want it and mas calidad best quality salt mineral rosada pink salt yeah good for cooking. This salt also has medicinal properties people say good for health. If you want you can buy some salt products during our route we stop shop for salt yeah many different things made from this salt for sale. Maras Salt Mines altitude about 11154 feet (3400 meters).

For sure this place for travelers has much history and interesting data facts yeah our guide will tell you all along the way. After  the visit around these amazing places Moray and Maras Salt Mines we transport our guests back to Cusco city easy ride. Our tour finish around 2:00 PM in afternoon yeah. This tour for Moray and salt mines of Maras finishes good half day trip.