Moray and Maras Tour is an outdoor activity outside the city of Cusco. This fantastic tour has incredible locations. The journey takes us to the Sacred Valley, which is home to many salt mines. Also, you will see a series of circular terraces built in a natural hole into the earth like a vast amphitheater. Each terrace has a unique micro-climate with which the Incas could determine the optimal growing conditions for different crops.

Our service starts every day at 8:00 am, the pick-up is at the cathedral door and picks up from hotels from 7:45 to 8:15 am returning at approximately 2:45 pm.

Category
Day Tours
Location
Cusco Region
Minimun Height
3300 mamsl
Maximum Height
3800 mamsl
Grade
Easy

Day 1

Moray and Salt Mines of Maras Tour

Moray

It is located 47 kilometers from Cusco. In Moray, you can see the Inca greenhouse or agricultural laboratory, formed by four amphitheaters or platforms of superimposed concentric circular stones, and approximately 150 meters deep, the rings widen as they ascend. As the rings descend, the plants adapted to new ecosystems.

Maras

It is located 7 kilometers from Moray and 3, 380 m.a.s.l. Historically founded the year of 1556 by the encomendero Captain Pedro Ortiz de Orué, as part of the reductions imposed by the Viceroy Francisco de Toledo, who owned the salt mines, which were already exploited since the incanato as a means of economic exchange and values. Maras is a small town, as a model of a miniature city.