Two incredible destinations, an agricultural laboratory of the Incas in Moray and an ancient salt mine in Maras, which is still exploited today. A trip that shows the scenic beauty of the high parts of the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
This trip begins at 8:30 a.m. on the road that connects Cusco with Urubamba, taking a detour that allows you to reach Moray, a place that is surprising due to its characteristics. It is a complex of perfectly circular terraces, located in a hollow of uncertain origin, which has been used as a laboratory for the acclimatization of plants to different altitudinal levels and for obtaining corn and potato seeds. Archaeological excavations and scientific observations have also concluded that the place never floods despite its sunken conical shape.
The Salineras de Maras is a place where salt has been exploited or processed using flooding and evaporation drying techniques in thousands of small terraces in the sun since time immemorial. The white and brown color of the pools and the aridity of the surrounding territories form a spectacular desert landscape that is worth seeing. Today, two Quechua communities have inherited the techniques and uses of this place and the product they extract comes from a single spring that passes through a deposit of pure rock salt in the earth’s crust, which makes it highly valued for its purity and flavor due to the growing boom in the country’s gastronomy.
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