Moray – Salt mines and Chinchero Half Day

After breakfast at your hotel, our Machupicchu Latin America guide will pick you up from your hotel lobby between 7:45 to 8:00 am and drive you in our comfortable transport from Cusco to Chinchero which will be our first top if you haven`t visited before, and visit the Tupac Inca Yupanqui Royal House where their original Inca walls are still well preserved and have a chance to meet the Chinchero women in their traditional dressing in a weaving or textile center. And then continue our drive to the village of Maras until we arrive at the archaeological site of Moray which contains an important agricultural system. Moray, during the Incan times, was possibly one of the most important agricultural research centers, where experiments were conducted at different heights crop, the arrangement of its platforms produces a variety of micro-climates taking the center of the concentric circular shape terraces higher temperature and decreasing gradually outward lower temperatures. After this amazing visit, we will drive to our last stop and visit the famous Salt mines (Salineras). The salt is extracted in artisanal form, the Salt Mines are made up of about 3000 small wells that have been exploited since the Inca times and it was an economic exchange way. After we explore these beautiful places, we will drive you back to your Cusco hotel arriving around 13:00 pm.

Note 1: If you are taking a departure flight from Cusco, we can start the tour earlier to be back at Cusco airport by 12:00pm.

Note 2: If you prefer, we can drop off you to Urubamba or Ollantaytambo town for an extra cost.