To begin your day trip to Moray Inca ruins, the famous Salt Mines of Maras, and the archaeological site of Pisac in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, your private tour guide will pick you at 7:30 am from your hotel in Cusco in a private transport.

Then, you will drive by the road that leads to Chinchero to the unique and fascinating archaeological site of Moray accompanied by an expert local guide. Along the way to Moray, enjoy beautiful landscape and stunning vistas of the snow-capped peaks of the Andes, and the Urubamba Mountain range, including Mount Veronica and Pitusiray–both over 18,000 feet.

On arrival, explore the impressive archaeological complex of Moray in the Sacred Valley soaking the breathtaking Andes mountain and witness a dramatic built consisting of crop circles platforms amphitheater style. After exploring the fascinating display of terraces in Moray, you will continue driving on to Salineras or Salt Mines of Maras, it consists of 3,000 small pools roughly 5 square meters (53.8 ft²) in size.

These salt mines have been around since before the Incas and the main provider salt center to Cusco and it’s still even today for many communities around and the Sacred Valley, where locals still produce the salt by hands as the Incas used to do it centuries ago. At the Incredible Salt Ponds of Maras, you will also see how the mines are fed with springs saturated with salt and will also learn the important role that salt played during the Inca Empire.

Leaving Maras Salt Mines, you will take a 25 minutes drive to the town of Urubamba where you will have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch we move on to Pisac archeological complex – It is most known for its Incan ruins and large local market and very well visited in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.

At the archeological site of Pisac, you will see impressive and massive crop terracings, which cover all the hillsides of the mountains, these terraces were built to keep producing products at any time or season a year as they were fed by irrigation aqueducts system. This Pisac Inca archaeological site also has offer ancient Inca cemetery, smaller neighborhoods which are linked by short Inca trails, and an amazing view of the Sacred Valley.

On this tour, you can’t miss the local colorful market of Pisaq, which has a huge variety of handicrafts, alpaca products, silver, gold, etc. where you may find the perfect souvenirs.

If your tour ends in Cusco, you will visit a weaving co-op to learn about the ancient weaving process which is still practiced in the town of Chinchero, as well as, a visit the small alpaca/llama farm on the way to Cusco, a great place to get your perfect snapshot with these animals. At the end of the day, after the tour, we will drop you off at your hotel in Cusco or another location.