Tour biking maras moray salineras half day

The bike tour to Maras-Moray-Salineras (3300 masl) is a circuit of pure pleasure, fun and adventure challenges where we can see the natural landscape (flora) of the area and the wonderful Sacred Valley with magnificent views of the snowy Chicon and La Veronica contrasting with its green forests and vegetation that this has within the Vilcanota mountain range, Through this tour you will be able to see the great experimental center of agricultural production such as the circular terraces of Moray and the famous pink salt pits “Salineras” of Maras with more than 5000 wells that were made with irregular stone walls with mud mortar that delimit each well and are fed by a spring and this feeds different wells, until today are used and exploited by the population and admired by thousands of tourists. This tour is a unique and unforgettable experience.

Ready to Travel Peru recommends this bike tour Maras + Moray – Salineras by the good comments received by tourists who were part of this tour, during their visit to the city of Cusco.

DURATION: 7 HOURS (half day)

SCHEDULE: 08:00 – 15:00 HRS.

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Easy – Moderate

ITINERARY

• We start the tour with the pick up from your hotel from 8 am.
• We will go by tourist bus to the place of Cruzpata, starting point of the bike tour (Chinchero 3800 masl), where the guide will give us all the necessary information before starting the bike tour.
• We will leave in group to our first place to visit on bicycles that will be the viewpoint of the Huaypo lagoon (3507 masl), Its name comes from an ancient Inca legend, where Manco Capac asked his god, the Sun that his twin children accompany him at the time of his decline and when the time came, they discovered that the son of Manco Capac had become the Huaypo lagoon and the daughter in the Piuray lagoon. An ideal landscape for photo shoots and a place where the local population is dedicated to artisanal trout fishing, this lake is also a habitat for migratory birds and a study area for many biologists.
• We will continue our adventure on bicycles passing through the town of Cruzpata enjoying the scenery until we reach an intersection where the mobility is waiting for us to board together with the bicycles.
• We will board the bus to go to the community of Misminay where we will have the view of Moray. Moray is very characteristic for its circular terraces, where they took advantage of the natural depression which is believed to have been a center of agricultural experimentation of crops used by the Incas obtaining different microclimates, 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.
• After that, we will descend on bicycles in an adventure that will lead us to the Maras salt mines characterized by the presence of more than 5 thousand pools of pink salt and its warm water springs whose flow is conducted by thousands of small ponds of little bottom, In Inca times this archaeological site was used for purification rituals which were consumed with special unction and used in festivities associated with the summer solstice on December 21, today the consumption of this salt and its marketing is the main economic activity of the people of Maras.
• We will finish the Maras Moray bike tour with the return to the city of Cusco at 3 pm after a unique and unforgettable experience.