

Day Tour to Maras, Moray, and Salt Flats from Cusco
Explore the full itinerary for Day Tour to Maras Moray and Salt Flats from Cusco in Cusco, Peru. This cultural neighborhood tours experience includes 4 stops over 1 day. Duration: 8 hours. Activity level: Moderate.


After this visit we will go to the archaeological center of Moray which is located 38 km from the city of Cusco, Moray is considered an Inca agricultural laboratory. Which is made up of 4 muyus or circles, which are concentric circular platforms, the deepest is 80 meters of depression with the lowest platform 36 meters. diameter. Temperature variations ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 ° C per platform are also found within the platforms, which can reproduce up to 20 different types of microclimates.

After this beautiful visit we go to the Salineras de Maras, as their name indicates, they are salt mines made up of around 7000 small pools, each pool producing approximately 50 to 80 kilos of salt per station. These are watered by an underground salt water spring, this process is completely natural and lasts almost two months for a growing season, Maras Salt is in high demand and the highest quality variety is Pink mineral salt.

We return to Cusco where our tour ends approx. at 2:00 p.m., thus culminating our tour to the salt mines of Maras.