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Maras Moray & Salt Mines

01 day tour

Maras, Moray and salt mines are located in Maras, a district of the Urubamba province, possible to be reached through a paved road from kilometre 50 on the road Qosqo - Chinchero - Urubamba. It is located towards the west of Qosqo. Over a plain that in prehistoric times was a huge plateau, from which it is possible to observe the range of mountains of Urubamba including the snow capped mountains of Waqay Willka (today "La Veronica", 5682 m.a.s.l, 18641 ft.) & " Chicon" (5530 mts, 18143 ft.).

Trip Program:

Transfer from hotel and Drive to Maras Town where you can see nice gateways narrow streets, then drive About 7 kms. (4.3 miles) to the southwest and reach Moray, a unique archaeological site in the region. Consisting in enormous depressions or hollows in the ground surface that Inkas Made, used as agriculture experimentation centre, What is surprising is that the difference of average annual temperature between the top and the bottom. After visiting moray we continue towards the northwest of the village and get the famous "Salt Mines".

The "salt mines" are constituted by about 3000 small pools with an average area of 5 m² (53.8 ft²), constructed in a slope of the "Qaqawiñay" mountain. People fill up or "irrigate" the pools with salty water emanating from a natural spring located on the top of the complex.

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