This is a fantastic half day tour to explore three popular tourist attractions of the sacred valley: The salt pools of Maras, the inca terraces of Moray and an excellent souvernir shopping opportunity at the Chincheros textile market.

You will be picked up from your hotel as long as it is in the Historic center in Cusco at 8:00am (08h00) and travel through the Sacred Valley of the Incas until you arrive to Chinchero. We will make a quick stop at an artesan center and view some inca ruins from the distance. From here, we will descend to the Village of Maras and visit the Maras Salt Pools to discover how the Incas ingeniously tapped a natural salt water stream to create evaporating pools for collecting salt, a system that is still used to this day.

Then we will continue to the ruins of Moray, a site of circular terraces, some as deep as 98 feet (30 meters), that once offered a testing ground for agricultural products. Each terrace has a unique microclimate which subsequently experiences its own temperature. Without even having to leave the valley, the Inca had created an agricultural laboratory which mimicked the temperature throughout the empire.

After your tour, you will be dropped off at the Cusco historic center.This tour also gives you amazing views of Urubamba mountain range with stunning views of the Veronica mountain and the green farming valleys. On this tour you will learn about agriculture , textiles, and the history of the incas.