Salineras de Maras & Moray

There are several great sites to visit in the Sacred Valley. I'd like to take you to two of them today: Salina de Maras and Moray 🙂

The Maras salt mines have been in operation for more than 500 years. The salt is drying in in flat beds and is "harvested" by the families of the different communities around. We walked there from Urubamba. It was very impressive!

At the Salineras, we were lucky and found the driver of a motor taxi who was willing to bring us the 18 km to Moray. The site looks a bit like an amphitheatre, but the purpose is completely different: it served as a laboratory for plant grafting in the Inca times! The Incas built concentric terraces. At the bottom, the temperature was highest. Going up, it fell and I the highest terrace, the average temperature was about 15 degrees less! Thus, Incas experimented with their crops and found ways to enure them to different temperatures and they could plant them in different altitudes. It is said that this way, they bred about 3.600 different kinds of potatoes 🥔! I think I know about three from back home 🙈

Querido Perú 🇵🇪 , me he enamorada mucho de ti 💜❤️🧡💛💚💙

Have fun with the pics. So happy to share all this with you 🙏🏼もっと詳しく