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Experiential Tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine

Experience our tour experiental tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine in Cusco Peru. Maras And Moray Peru are breathtaking places, located above the famous sacred valley of the Incas, also these magical places are surrounded by some small villages where live the traditional people, who speak two languages at the same time, like Quechua and Spanish. Moreover, our tours are well-inclusive and expert-led with a personal touch.

Moreover, on this private tour, we stay overnight in the community named, Kacllaraccay surrounded by the Andes mountain range.

If you are looking for private and exclusive experiental tourism, come with us, and discover our private service, and our local knowledge guarantees that your experiental tourism will be enjoyable and unique.

Take this new experience private tour for a couple of days, at the famous sacred valley of the Incas, close to many tourist attractions places, and views of the sacred snow-capped mountains. 

Maras And Moray Tours

So in this village, we participate in the daily activities of the locals and also visit the Inca site of Moray, and the colonial town of Maras, and the famous salt mines wells located at the slope of the red mountain, with the view of Sacred Valley of the Incas, and the snow-capped mountain of Chicon.

This tour gives you the chance to learn about the real life of Peruvian farmers, mainly the tour guide will teach you, about farmers’ traditions, religion, education, philosophy, trading, and work.

Experiential Tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine  3D/2N

First Day: Cusco – Kacllaraccay

We also pick you up from where you are and then head in a private car to the community of Kacllaraccay and will visit the homes of the inhabitants consisting of more than 15 families.
Then we have some lunch in the open field and you can visit their homes and see their daily habits and then we spend the night at the selected local family house.

  • Included: Lunch and dinner in the house of the local families
  • Overnight: Local homestay

Second Day: Activities In The Village Of Kacllaraccay

Kacllaraccay so this day will be a wonderful and unforgettable experience because we will participate in daily activities and customs and then traditions.
After a typical breakfast, we go with one of the families to learn how to do the farm and be with animals and then we will have a typical lunch at the village house and then at night, we have some dinner.

  • Included: breakfast and lunch and then dinner with local people
  • Overnight: Local homestay

Third-Day: Visit To Maras – Moray – Salineras

Today, after early breakfast we go to the beautiful Inca fortress Moray, which is hiking for about an hour, then we visit the archaeological site of Moray, which has been used by the Incas, like terraces of agricultural experimentation, and see these amazing places with many round terraces and being 100 hundred meters deep.

After this place, we go to the famous salt mines Maras known for quality nutrient salt currently, the salt has approximately 3,000 small pools and after exploring, will be time for the packed lunch.

Afterward, we will appreciate the mountains and landscape surrounding this impressive place,  and then we take you back to Cusco and drop you off at your place.

Included: Breakfast and packed lunch

Included For Experiential Tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine

1. Professional Guides:

All of our guides studied English and Tourism at University, and then also they grew up in this region and they have a true passion for teaching their inherited history from their ancestors, and also help you with some medical help since we are trained in medical first aid.

 2. Briefing For Experiential Tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine

The night before you go to the local town you will have a briefing with your guide, and also he will be your translator from Quechua language, and Spanish.

Also, these local people are very friendly and humble and always, they like to work for better life, especially for their children.

So mainly the men from these towns are employed for the famous Inca Trail as porters which is one of the main income as well and also they are very dedicated to farming the fields and farm animals, such as sheep and cattle and guinea pig so You will participate in this activity in tour called experiential tourism Cusco Maras salt mine.

3. The Way They Get Type  Food

They do the exchange with the crops they grow at the local markets on Sundays at different communities and also every Sunday morning they go to the small churches, where they have some mass, provided by the Cusco city priest being Catholics and this religion has been introduced by the Spaniards 500 year ago.

Also, they have some festivals once per year, which are like mega holidays for all of the communities of local people, which is being the day of the patron saints and celebrated for 8 days with drinking the famous Inca beer made of fermented corn and eating roasted guinea pig so this is part of the experiential tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine.

4. Overnight For Experiential Tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine

We stay in the remote houses made by the locals and use the loose soil as mud brick and being a tiled roof with some small clay bulls on the top of the roof as a tradition of being local farmers and traditional people.

Price For Experiential Tourism Cusco Maras Salt Mine

  • Per person:  US$520

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