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DAY 01 :
We will pick you up from your hotel at 7:45 am for a tour in the valley
south where you can visit the following sites:
MARAS : In the town of Maras, can see the snowy mountain of the Incas
Sacred Valley and the Vilcabamba. At present this district keeps attractive
pre-Hispanic, colonial and republican, highlighting people in the colonial
doorways with coats of the nobles and chieftains from the sixteenth and
twentieth century’s.
Split the town of Maras two routes, one to the archaeological complex of
Moray and the other to the salt mines of Maras, each with an approximate
distance of 4 km.
SALINERAS: OR "SALT MINES": Located northwest of the town of Maras
consist of about 2000 small wells, which were already exploited since Inca
times as a means of economic exchange and is still being exploited by the
locals.
The small wells with an average area of about 5 m², built on the side of the
slope of the mountain of "Qaqawiñay" during the dry season is fill or
"water" every 3 days with salt water that comes from a natural spring
located at the top of the wells to the water evaporates, the salt contained
in it gradually solidifies. This process will continue for about a month
until a considerable volume of solid salt, about 10 cms. height from the
floor, which is then beaten and well granulated, the salt is then bagged in
plastic bags and shipped to markets in the region today that iodized salt is
still so its use is not harmful.
MORAY: Archaeological group unique in the region. It is famous for
its sunken amphitheater, formed by four circular terraces which seem to
disappear within the highlands, by way of an artificial crater. Apparently,
the place was an Inca agricultural research center dedicated to the
experimentation of cultures around the different altitudinal levels of the
plots (some more than 100 m deep). The terraces, retaining walls built on
filled with fertile soil and watered by complex irrigation systems, allowed
to grow more than 250 plant species.
The gallery has a depth greater than 45 m and the average height of each
platform is 1.80 m. It is considered that the site was an important center
of agricultural experimentation during Inca times. Through the use of
concentric terraces because the temperatures at each level are different
from each other, have played all the ecological zones covered by the rule of
Tahuantinsuyo.
Besides being considered for Incas as a place of concentration of female
energy, which is considered as a magnetic center of the Pachamama.
At the end, return to Cusco arriving at 1:30pm approximately at the main
plaza.
Moray
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