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Maras, Moray, Salt Mines Cusco Tour (economical Opcion - Group Tour)
Activity Duration (7 hours)
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Explore the ancient salt mines of Maras and Moray, and discover the rich history of Cusco. Join our economical option - group tour - for a unique and unforgettable experience.
What you'll do
This is a half-day tour in the north of Cusco. The Maras and Moray sites are located in part of the sacred valley of the Cusco.
We recommend doing this tour if you have a free morning and you want to visit the great Terraces of Moray and the Salt Mines of Cusco.
We recommend doing this tour if you have a free morning and you want to visit the great Terraces of Moray and the Salt Mines of Cusco.
Meeting and pickup
Multiple pickup locations offered.
Additional pickup options
End: This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What is included?
Not wheelchair accessible
What is not included?
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
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Laguna Sport Travel
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Itinerary
Cusco Mountain Bike Tours Itinerary (2026 Guide) – What You'll See & Do
Explore the full itinerary for Maras, Moray, Salt Mines Cusco Tour (economical Opcion - Group Tour) in Cusco, Peru. This mountain bike tours experience includes 2 stops over 1 day. Duration: 7 hours. Activity level: Extreme.
No meal included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Here is the starting point
Moray
1
Moray
Stop: 60 minutes ·Admission includedThe admission fee is included in the tour package at no extra cost.
- We’ll pick up you from your hotel at 08:15 hrs on our bus to start the tour. We’ll visit the first point, the town of MARAS, located west of Cusco at 3300 m.a.s.l. from where it’ll possible to appreciate the mountain range of Urubamba and the snowy peaks of "Veronica" (5682 m.a.s.l) and "chikon" (5530 m.a.s.l). Maras’s history dates back to the colony when the nobles from the Inca Empire were stripped of their palaces in Cuzco or Qosqo and began to settle in other small towns like Maras. The church of Maras made of clay is a typical religious architecture of the colony, it save paintings of what was the Escuela Cusqueña (Cusco School).
- We continue with a visit to Moray, about 7 km southwest of Maras; it is the only archaeological site of this kind in the entire region. It consists of depressions or natural gigantic holes that were used by the Incas to build terraces in the contours, agricultural terraces with their respective irrigation canals, they were used as a prototype of greenhouse or experimental biological station advanced for that time, and it helped to the antiquity American men to inherit to the humanity 60% of vegetable products consumed today. For example they obtained more five thousand varieties of potatoes, one hundred and fifty of maize, varieties of quinoa and many other products.
2
Salinas de Maras
Stop: 60 minutes ·Admission includedThe admission fee is included in the tour package at no extra cost.
- We’ll continue with a visit to Salineras or salt mines that are exploited since the Inca period to the present day, Salineras is located northwest of the town of Maras, is constituted by about 3000 small wells of salt with an average area of about 5 m² each one, during the dry season these well are filled every 3 days with salt water emanating from a natural spring located at the top of the wells, the water evaporates and the salt contained in it, gradually solidifies , then this salt is granulated to be bagged in sacks and plastics, which are then shipped to markets of the region for sale.
- Finally we will return to Cusco at approximately 15:00 hrs.
This concludes the tour.
You’re free to explore at your own pace from here.
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