MARAS – MORAY – SALT MINES HORSEBACK RIDING

detailed itinerary

Everything begins with the meeting between our guide and the customers in the travel agency or Hotel, the tour guide will make the briefing and then take the private transportation to the rural community of Cruzpata , here we will contact our muleteers and horses, then we will go to the archaeological site of Moray, on the  way we will pass through stunning scenery, surrounded by snowy mountains and farmland with crops growing. Arriving in Moray our guide will explain the importance of this archaeological site where the Incas worked with plants and foods to adapt the plants to different altitude levels, according to scientific research it is known that in the agricultural terraces can be found up to 15 degrees difference in  temperature. After visiting the archaeological site of Moray, we take our horses and headed to the town of Maras , we do a small tour in this picturesque village where we will see a church that has over 400 years old, here in  Maras we leave our  horses, because we will take our transportation towards the famous “salt mines”, this place is exploited by the locals even from pre-Inca times, involves making small wells to hold water, this water contains salt particles that settle at the base  to be extracted. After we will return to Cusco on our private transportation. That is how  ends our day out at about 16:30 pm in the city of Cusco.