Maras - Moray - Pisonay Apart Hotel

Itinerary

1.- Maras

Located in the province of Urubamba at 3300 m.s.n.m. From there you can appreciate the Vilcanota mountain range and the snowy peaks: El Chikón (5530 m.s.n.m), “Putukisi”, La Verónica. Nowadays this picturesque town keeps attractive of the pre-hispanic, colonial and republican period, emphasizing in the town streets and colonial fronts with shields of the nobles and caciques of the centuries XVII and XVIII.

2.-Salineras:

This place is known as the salt mines consists of about 400 small salt pits. It is built in the mountain of kachi qata, where it comes in salt water. This place was very important since the Inca times because the Inca gave a very valuable use for food such as charki or stuffed meat. Nowadays salt is still being extracted to export Asia Europe, to obtain the salt the settlers have to fill the well after allowing the water to evaporate and the salt remains if it is carried out for a month or more until obtaining the volume and The solides of salt.

3.- Moray

It is about 7 km southwest of Maras and 53 km from Cusco with altitude of 3,385 m.s.n.m; Is a unique archaeological group of its kind in the region. They are giant natural holes that were used by the Inkas who built terraces or agricultural platforms with their respective irrigation canals, is therefore a prototype of greenhouse, this place is where incredible advances were made in agriculture.