From Cusco: Maras Salt Mines and Moray Terraces Private Tour – Cusco, Peru

EXPERIENCE:

Discover Moray’s agricultural terraces, visit Maras’s salt mines, and learn about textiles in Chichero on this private day trip from Cusco.

After pickup at your hotel, drive with your guide to Chinchero. Upon arrival, visit the textile interpretation center and find out about textile management through history.

Next, continue to the agricultural laboratory of Moray, where you’ll find agricultural terraces used for experimental purposes. Take photos as you learn about their various uses.

From Moray, move on to Maras to visit the “Salineras de Maras”, salt mines that have been exploited since the Inca period. Hear how the Incas took advantage of a saltwater spring located on a mountainside and turned it into evaporation chambers.

Afterward, your guide will take you back to your hotel in Cusco.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Visit the Sacred Valley of the Incas, visiting Chinchero, Maras and Moray
Snap fantastic photos of the agricultural terraces of Moray
Visit the Maras Salt Mines and learn about its Incan origins
Admire the stunning views of the Sacred Valley of the Incas
Learn about the traditional methods of production of textiles in Chinchero

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