Tour ATV Maras Moray half day

MARAS MORAY ATV TOUR

Our ATV tour is part of the Sacred Valley of the Incas (3300 m a.s.l.) a tour of a lot of adrenaline on a dirt road, perfect and ideal for people who like adventure where you can see magnificent landscapes and views of snow-capped mountains Chicon and Veronica contrasting with its green forests and vegetation that this has the Vilcanota mountain range, Through this tour you will be able to see the great experimental center of agricultural production with the circular terraces of Moray and the famous pink salt pits “Salt mines” of Maras with more than 5000 wells that were made with irregular stone walls with mud mortar that delimit each well and that are fed by a spring and this feeds different wells, until today are used and exploited by the population and that are very admired by thousands of tourists. This tour is a unique and unforgettable experience.

Ready to Travel Peru recommends this tour on ATV Maras, Moray and Salineras for being a tour of perfect harmony with the natural and cultural landscape in our ATV.

DURATION: 6 HOURS APPROX. (half day)

SCHEDULE: 07:00 – 11:00 HRS.

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Easy – Moderate

ITINERARY

• Pick up from your hotel for the start of the ATV tour ATV Maras Moray from 06:30 hrs.
• Then we will board a tourist bus that will take us to Cruz Pata in Chinchero at 3800 meters above sea level. Place where the ATVs are located.
• Before starting the ATV ATV tour, all the necessary information for the correct use of the ATVs will be provided by the guides, before that we will test the correct use and in turn will be given to know all the places to visit on the ATVs.
• Once ready we will head towards the town of Maras with magnificent views of the snow-capped mountains of Veronica and Chicon that are part of the Andes Mountains, a journey full of adrenaline and adventure until we reach the entrance to the salt mines, where we will stop to take the tourist bus that will allow us to enter the salt mines. The “Salineras de Maras” characterized by the presence of more than 5 thousand pools of pink salt and its warm water springs whose flow is driven by thousands of small ponds of little depth, in Inca times this archaeological site had function of purification rituals which were consumed with special anointing and used in festivities associated with the summer solstice on December 21 today the consumption of this salt is the economic activity to which the population of Maras is dedicated.
• After an incredible experience we will go to the experimental agricultural terraces of Moray that extends between the more than 3200 meters of altitude, the same that is irrigated by some springs, Moray is very characteristic for its terraces in circular form where the natural depression was used which is believed to have been a center of agricultural experimentation of crops used by the Incas obtaining diverse microclimates, It also has ceremonial fountains and concentric terraces in whose agricultural surfaces have been found average temperature variations of up to 5 ° C and which allowed the cultivation of products from different regions of Peru.
• Finally, after all this experience full of adrenaline and history, we will return to the city of Cusco.