After breakfast, enjoy the beauty of Cusco with the optional tours.
OPTION 2: MARAS MORAY & SALT MINES
(Additional Price: USD 40 per person).
We will pick you up from your hotel around 8 AM an take you to Moray “The Inca agricultural greenhouse or laboratory”. We will drive for about 1 hour
and 20 minutes through the snow-capped peaks of the Andes, through lush yellow fields of wheat, past some villages. Finally, you will arrive to the fascinating display of terraces in Moray. Moray boasts three amphitheater-like terraces made by the Incas. These terraces, which are carved deep into the earth in a bowl shape, were thought to be used to determine the optimal conditions for growing crops. When we are done exploring Moray we will continue and visit the salt mines of Maras, which is about 2 miles away. This village is known as a former salt-producing center that is thought to date back all the way to pre-Inca times. There are over 3000 salt pools all carved into the mountainside, the highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. The water, which is exposed to the sun, leaves salt on the land. After this amazing visit, we will drive back to Cusco.
Include:
Transportation
Professional English speaking guide.
Not include:
Tourist ticket (extra PEN 80)
Dinner
OPTION 3: HALF DAY CITY TOUR
(Additional Price: USD 30 per person).
We will pick you up at 1:00PM from your hotel to start the tour and visiting the following places.
The Koricancha: Temple of the sun.
The Cathedral: Marvel of the religious art.
Sacsayhuaman: Majestic place with impressive works in stone, some up to 120 tons.
Q´enqo: (Labyrinth) a religious center dedicated to the adoration of the Earth.
Puca Pucara: (reddish place) that was used as a military control center.
Tambomachay: (Temple of the Water) a center of adoration and worship of water.
Include:
Transportation
Professional English speaking guide.
Not include:
Tourist ticket (extra PEN 105)
Dinner
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