Moray and Salt Mines of Maras Tour

Moray

It is located 47 kilometers from Cusco. In Moray, you can see the Inca greenhouse or agricultural laboratory, formed by four amphitheaters or platforms of superimposed concentric circular stones, and approximately 150 meters deep, the rings widen as they ascend. As the rings descend, the plants adapted to new ecosystems.

Maras

It is located 7 kilometers from Moray and 3, 380 m.a.s.l. Historically founded the year of 1556 by the encomendero Captain Pedro Ortiz de Orué, as part of the reductions imposed by the Viceroy Francisco de Toledo, who owned the salt mines, which were already exploited since the incanato as a means of economic exchange and values. Maras is a small town, as a model of a miniature city.