Maras Moray Salt Mines

Maras Moray and The salt mines tour, are unique places, located at the sacred valley, a combination of culture, nature and history, where each site has more particular details and beauty that is hardly compared to other circuits, our private tour to see Chinchero, the salt mines and moray, gives you the perfect time to enjoy the country side, the nature and a great touch of the wonderful sites that Peru has to offer.

Places in Maras Moray tour.

Chinchero:

located at 1 hours from Cusco, is a magic site that hosts one of the nicest temple from the XVII century temple with its walls completely covered by murals that makes this church unique, here you will find as well the archaeological site, that keeps fine structures and has 3 famous wacas “Worship Rocks), nice streets and a trail by a canyon leading to the sacred valley, after this two great places there an opportunity to visit a house of local weavers and learn a bit of their textiles weaving tradition.

Moray:

This consist in terraces built in circular shape, located at a place from where you can have great view to the sacred valley mountains, were built during the XV century, used as agriculture experimenting center and now a days by its beauty, is one of the most frequented places in Peru, visiting this site is absolutely recommended.

The Salt Mines

Passing by “Maras” a district with nice typical Andes colonial towns, has a mixture of Spanish style architecture, and local touch owns the nice portrait, this gates ornate the nice houses, where we can lunch in a local restaurant. From here we’ll go to see the salt mines, which are running on the same way from centuries ago, more than 3000 ponds, where it’s 633 owner are processing the sat in the same was as thousands of years ago.

Let’s discover this magical sites inca private tour, where our expert local guides will show you the best of it.