Maras Moray Salt Mines Half Day

We leave from Cusco city approx. at 9:00 am , traveling to Chinchero an Andean town crossing the agriculture areas. Here we will pass the town of Maras directly to our main destination of the circles of Moray with view of the snow carpets of the cordillera Vilcanota Moray Inca agriculture laboratory, the circles of Moray, constructed on stone in descending circles in a volcano crater, uniformly constructed 150 metres deep, which are used to adapt crops to the new ecosystem of the Andes. With an irrigation system, also being constructed with a filtration system to avoid flows and damage to crops.

Also in the deepest circle, many ceremonies to the earth (Pacha Mama) after that we will continue to Salineras of Maras (Maras Salt mines) are located, one of the biggest mysteries of nature. From the depths of the mountain sprouts a spring of extremely salty water and since the Incas ruled these lands these salt mines have been made up from about 3000 small wells with an area average size of about 4 ms ² and 10cm deep. Those are being exploited until the modern era, producing salt by natural evaporation where a simple natural process of salty water fills up the wells allowing the sun to hit and evaporate the water with the remaining substance left being pure natural salt then we return to Cusco city at 14:30 pm.