Maras and Moray

Our tour begin by pick you up from your hotel in Cusco around 8:30 am to then take the sacred valley path. Our first stop is in Maras a traditional town where we will appreciate its church made of adobe from the town of Maras we can appreciate the Urubamba mountain range and the snowy peaks of “La Verónica” and “Chikón”, We will continue to the archaeological Center of Moray in the North of the town of Maras, Moray is about 7 km. southwest of Maras; It is unique in its kind in the region archaeological group. These are depressions or gigantic natural holes on the surface of the land that were used to construct terraces or agricultural platforms with their respective irrigation channels, which is a prototype of a greenhouse or experimental biological station quite advanced for its time that helped That mankind of ancient times inherited 60% of the vegetable products that are currently consumed, nowadays in Peru there are more than 5000 types of potatoes, one hundred and fifty maize, and many other products.

Continuing the tour we will arrive at Maras salt mine, impressive platforms of salt formed by thousands of white ponds that seem like snow. Maras salt mine are located to the Northwest of the town of Maras are constituted by about 3000 small wells with an average area of about 5 m², during the dry season are filled or “water” every 3 days with salt water that emanates from a natural water located at the top of the wells so to evaporate the water , the salt contained in this solidifies gradually, then salt is beaten and so grainy; the salt will be then bagged in plastic sacks and sent to markets in the region; today that salt is being iodized reason why, its consumption is not harmful. Finally we will be returning to the city of Cusco at 3:30 pm approximately.

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