Discover Maras Moray Tour Peru, which is a day tour, and we do it on a friendly budget. Mainly Moray Cusco is located at the nice Andes mountains and surrounded by farming fields, also we explore these places at your own pace with plenty of time for photos.
Maras is a Colonial village with big Colonial churches and mud-brick houses with stone base walls, where we can observe Inca carved stones and tiled roof, and has a beautiful small main square, where we see some models of the salt mine and Moray.
Moreover, Maras is famous for the salt evaporation ponds, located at the slope part of the sacred valley mountains, where also you see the river named Vilcanota.
Mainly, there are over 5,000 salt ponds and owned by each family from Mara town.
Moray is one of the famous Inca sites in the Cusco region since only this site has beautifully rounded terraces and being 150 meters deep, and also is located 50 kilometers (31 miles ) northwest of Cusco, also the altitude is at 3.520 masl (11,483 ft).
What Was The Function Of Moray Inca Site?
According to the Peruvian geologists, this Inca site was used as terraces of agriculture experimentation, mainly the Incas introduced the coca bush and some tropical tubers, from the Amazon jungle.
Moreover, the coca bush, was one of the main food, since the remote time, so mainly the coca leaves still are used, for doing the hard work, since the coca leaf contains some vitamins, and one of the important ingredients is alkaloids, which helps to heal some pain in the body.
The way, why the terraces were used to grow tropical tubers, is because we found types of stones to keep the heat, in another way to keep warm the terraces, and also we found volcanic stones to drain the irrigation water through the geological falls
How To Get To These Places Of Maras Moray Tour Peru
The way you get to these places is in different ways, by car, hiking, horseback riding, cycling, motorbike.
The way by car is in two ways:
- By local Colectivo transport, since Cusco city, and takes 2 hours, just to the stop place for Moras and Moray, so from here you can take some taxi for 25 minutes to the salt mine, and then to Moray for 35 minutes.
Note: Much better is to ride private transport, from Cusco city or anywhere you are close to these places since the cost, will be about the same, by the end. Also with private transport, you save plenty of time to visit these sites and photos.
What Is The High Altitude Of Maras Salt Mine?
Maras & Moray Tour
This day tour is one of the outstanding sites for visiting in the Cusco region in Peru country, and the tour is organized from any places you are, like from Cusco city, Pisaq, Urubamba, Yanahura, Ollantaytambo.
The best way to enjoy this day tour in the Cusco region is in a private group, so you have enough time for visiting these sites and photos with stopping at the viewpoints, also along the route you see some nice farming fields with some animals, such as cows and sheep, donkeys.
Also, you see some snow-capped mountains and some part of the famous sacred valley of the Incas, with the famous river named Vilcanota, therefore this magic day tour should be guided by an expert local tour guide, in other to know the real history of these places to visit.
More importantly, the company Chacras Travel Peru organize this day tour to Maras Moray with well-recommended tour guides in the Trip Advisor Company at Cusco Peru country.
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