Full-Day Tour of Moray and Maras Salt Mines in the Sacred Valley
Highlights
Cusco
nature, educational, cultural
Group Tour
1 Day
Easy
English, Spanish
Description
Sign up for a tour and explore the two unique places of Cusco, Moray and Maras. Visit Moray to see the terraces used by the Incas to acclimatize plants that grew in warm places in higher and colder areas. Head on to explore Maras, where you will find over 3,000 salt ponds and get to learn the 500-year-old method of producing salt.
Itinerary
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Moray and Maras Salt Mines Tour
- Meet the tour guide in Cusco at the main office at 8:30 am to take a car for 1.5 to Moray, where the guide will explain all about the enigmatic circular terraces. You will have free time to explore the area and take pictures. See these terraces of Moray that the Incas used as a laboratory to acclimatize plants that grew in warm places so that they could grow in higher and colder areas.
- Later, visit the salt mines in Maras which are still in use as a small salt factory that locals extract it to sell in the local markets. You can walk inside and touch the salt pools. The guide will teach you all about it and also if you like, you can buy some souvenirs made out of salt.
- Afterwards, you go back to Cusco for 1.5 hours car ride, arriving in Cusco around 3:00 pm.
What's Included
What's Excluded
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations within 24 hours before the tour -
Refund of 50% of the tour price.
Price
| Adult | |
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| 1 to 15 | /person |
| Child | |
| 1 to 15 | /person |
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This is a group tour |
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