Includes
- Shared transportation
- Drop off in Cusco's downtown
- Guide (Spanish or English)
Discover the salt mines of Maras, where you will be able to take pictures of the scenery and buy souvenirs, and then afterwards visit the Moray terraces.
Price per person
Duration
6 hours
Schedules
8:30 am to 2:30 pm
Meeting point
Arnold Expeditions Agencia (Calle Garcilaso 210, in front of the Ministerio de Cultura, Cusco)
Includes
Does not include
Weather
What to bring
We will gather at the agreed time in our meeting point, so then we board the vehicle that will take us, passing by a craftwork community in Chinchero where we will see the llama whole treatment process, to our first destination: the mines of Maras (entry ticket not included). The guide will explain us the salt extraction process and we will have time to take som pictures. Then, we will go towards Moray, farm lab that quechuas used to experiment with the cultivations of the several regions where they were present. We will be able to traverse the tracks to take pictures and feel the weather variation according to the terraces depth, which have a difference of 150 meters between the lowest and the highest point.
Once finished the 6 hours that lasts the tour, we will go back to Cusco in our vehicle, getting to the city's downtown.
*Entry tickets prices subject to change without previous notice.
About the Cusco tourist ticket
The tourist ticket allows you the access to the different places of interest in Cusco. We recommend you to buy it before the beginning of your activity, at Palacio Kusikancha, Calle Maruri 340, Cusco, to expedite the entrance time and take advantage of the time visiting the places, or you can buy it at the first visiting site of your itinerary, though. There are two types:
*The payment has to be in cash, with soles.
The full tourist ticket is valid for all the places in the three circuits available, in a period of 10 days, while the partial tourist ticket is valid for only one of the three circuits, in a period of one or two days, depending on the circuit. To see the detail of the places included in every circuit, visit the tourist ticket site.