Moray and Salt Mines of Maras with Pachamama ceremony half-day tour

Peru is not only Culture but also Inca architecture. It’s Andean culture, a living culture that has been maintained over time. On this private Moray and Salt Mines of Maras half-day excursion, you will be able to visit the fertile terraces of Moray, and the Inca salt mines, and finally perform a ceremony to Mother Earth that is part of the Peruvian culture alive in the high Andes.

Moray and Salt Mines of Maras with Pachamama ceremony half-day tour - Peruvian Culture Tours

Moray and Salt mines of Maras with Pachamama ceremonty half day tour in a small group travel

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Day 1: Moray-Salineras and mother earth ceremony half-day tour

Pick up from your Hotel in Cusco at 7:00 a.m.. drive on our private transport to the village of Maras where they still keep a good part of its colonial architecture. Then we go to the Moray archeological site, which was an important center of domestication, acclimatization, and hybridization of wild vegetable species that were modified or adapted for human consumption. After we will continue to salt mines located in a small community consisting of 3,000 small pools. Every three days, during the dry season, workers fill the pools with salt water that comes from a natural hot spring at the top of the Maras complex. When the water evaporates from the pool, the salt is left for collection. This process is carried out over one month until the pools.

Pachamama ceremony

After exploring the archeological site of Moray and Sol mine we take the bus back to Cusco but before we will celebrate the Inca tradition that continues from ancient times. Many people have a close relationship with our Mother Earth (Pachamama in Quechua), therefore every August 1st happens the perform of the ceremony in payment to the Pachamama. This represents the earth in the broadest sense of the word which is all nature that provides us the place and the resources we need to live. Mother Earth is our Mother Nature is everywhere, but we can find special places that people consider sacred after we will back to Cusco.