Today you have the two options, either stay in Cusco city and carry on exploring it at your own leisure time or have the organised option from this Machu Picchu Express 6 days, to travel to Maras salt Mines and Moray. (At an additional Price: USD 40 per person).
We will collect you in a private transport or get all together in a meeting point and leave Cusco city at 09:00 am. To ge on our way to Maras, we need to head in the direction of the Urubamba Valley which is next to the Sacred Valley. The Urubamba valley has a fantastic landscape and mountain range to admire. During our way to Maras on this Express 6 day tour, we will start noticing the green colours of its valleys, against the blue colours of its sky and reflected on its ground.
Once in Maras, a side of the mountain show us the salt mines and like various lakes decorating the mountain, the salt effect of displaying their white shores and blue colours of the sky transform this mountains in spectacle of real beauty. The Salt mines are located on a wide-open hill above the Urubamba Valley, a natural salt water stream runs underground.
This salt mines are dated since pre-Inca times and the local people do extract in small amount the salt by evaporating the salty water from its stream.
Our professional guide for this Machu Picchu Express tour, will show you on the stream points over this Maras salt resources. Basically, the highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. The water, which is exposed to the sun, leaves salt on the land. Viewed from the peak, the myriad of rectangles look like an enormous painting designed by nature.
Finished our visit to the salt mines in Maras, we continue on a short distance to the Moray ruins as a part of our Machu Picchu Express 6 days tour,
Moray are composed of three big circles each one different on its size, in appearance is similar to a roman coliseums. We will be descending to some of this circles which are big in their dimensions. Archaeologist have been based their theories about this circles as a Inca laboratory for crops, this is for the foundings in site but this is not 100% certain.
The incas who built this circles understood very well the effects on the depressions they did purposely. Once of this effect is the managing of the temperature as there are sides of the terraces hotter than other ones getting as much as 15 °C/27 °F between the top and bottom.
Finished visiting Moray, we will carry on our journey In the afternoon, we return back to Cusco city.
Include:
- Transportation
- Professional English speaking guide.
Not include:
- Tourist ticket (extra PEN 80)
- Dinner
Another option: Half day city tour
On this day also still available the half day city tour option instead of doing the Maras and Moray one.
We will pick you up at 1:00PM from your hotel to start the tour and visiting the following places.
- The Koricancha: Temple of the sun.
- The Cathedral: Marvel of the religious art.
- Sacsayhuaman: Majestic place with impressive works in stone, some up to 120 tons.
- Q´enqo: (Labyrinth) a religious center dedicated to the adoration of the Earth.
- Puca Pucara: (reddish place) that was used as a military control center.
- Tambomachay: (Temple of the Water) a center of adoration and worship of water.
Include:
- Transportation
- Professional English speaking guide.
Not include:
- Tourist ticket (extra cost - Consult Us)
- Dinner
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