Chinchero Inca Terraces

Chinchero with Moray - Salt Mines Full day

Moray, Salt Mines and Chinchero town Tours; This alternative to Sacred Valley option allows you to explore the other highlights of the Valley, a bucket-list for everyone also the best tour for instagram lovers. This option is perfect for those who are staying in Ollantaytambo

town or Urubamba before their trip continues to Machu Picchu or just taking the train to Aguas calientes town.This is a great way to explore the Sacred Valley while learning about the Incan stuff like history, agriculture, gastronomy.

Tour Details - Maras Salt Mines and Chinchero

 

Itinerary

Explore the beautiful Peruvian countryside with a full-day tour of the magical Sacred Valley, home to several royal estates of Incan emperors. First, you will visit the town of Chinchero, famous for its bustling indigenous market and for the beautiful Incan ruins on the hillside overlooking the city also we will visiting the Quechua weavers place. Following your visit to Maras, a picturesque town surrounded by stunning mountain landscapes, which has given its name to the salineras, or salt pans, that are located here. These salt mines are evaporation ponds that have been used to produce salt here since pre-Inca times, and the natural colour variation of the pools, staggered in terraces down the side of the canyon, make them a breathtakingly beautiful sight. You'll be able to see them in all their glory from the viewpoint. 

Next, you will visit the spectacular Moray, an Incan farming research center, because of this place, today we are able to have over 2000 sorts of potatoes and other plants, at this place you will see those spectacular rounded-shape terraces specially designed to get microclimates, which were good for plants adaptation and acclimatization.