From Cusco: Maras Salt Mines & Moray Tour

Visit Moray and the Maras Salt Mines on a guided half-day tour from Cusco with round-trip transfers and safety support.

Getting started

Depart from Cusco in a comfortable vehicle using the included round-trip transfers. Meet your professional bilingual guide, who will accompany you throughout the journey. Once everyone is on board, you will leave the city behind and travel toward the Sacred Valley, heading first to the Moray Archaeological Site for your guided visit.

What to expect

Moray Archaeological Site

This ancient Inca site is known for its impressive circular terraces set into natural depressions in the landscape. Your guided visit to the Moray Archaeological Site focuses on how these terraces may have served as an agricultural laboratory.

Features

• The circular terraces of Moray reveal different levels of depth, and your expert English and Spanish-speaking guide explains how temperature variations between levels could have helped the Incas experiment with crops.
• During the guided visit to the Moray Archaeological Site, you will learn about Inca agricultural engineering and how this place fits into the broader history, culture, and engineering of the Sacred Valley.
• Your tour includes round-trip transfers from Cusco, along with on-board safety support in the form of a first-aid kit and an oxygen cylinder for emergency assistance during the journey to and from Moray.

Maras Salt Mines

Next, you continue by vehicle to the Maras Salt Mines, where thousands of salt pools spread across the hillside are fed by a natural spring. This stop focuses on the traditional production process that local families still use today.

Features

• At the Maras Salt Mines, you will see thousands of individual salt pools arranged in terraces, all supplied by a natural spring that has been used for salt extraction for generations.
• Your guide describes the traditional salt extraction process still practiced by local families and points out viewpoints where you can appreciate the Andean landscapes and capture photos of the salt pans.
• The visit to the Maras Salt Mines is part of your half-day itinerary from Cusco, with the same expert English and Spanish-speaking guide, round-trip transfers, and continued access to the first-aid kit and oxygen cylinder for emergency assistance throughout this portion of the tour.