Maras and Moray

This is a delayed post from our trip to Maras and Moray.

The day started with traveling to the Moray Inca site. We had a short stop at a local store on the way where we learned how the locals dye alpaca wool for handcrafts. We continued to the Inca site, which was made up of 3 sets of circular terraces. These terraces were not used to grow food but instead, used for experimentation. The Incan people would take advantage of the slight changes in temperature and altitude at each terrace to create microclimates and then test to see which crops grew best at each level.

We then continued to Maras town where we got to see the salt extraction mines. This massive site consists of 4500 salt extraction pools. We got to see the different pools as well as try some different snacks/chocolates made using the extracted salt.

This was a lovely and relaxing half day trip before beginning the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu!!Read more