Mountain Bike tour to Moray and Maras Salt Mines Day Tour

Your guide will pick you up from your hotel at 8:00am sharp, then we will drive for approximately 90 minutes in our private van to Cruz Pata, where we will have a short briefing on what to expect during our full day of mountain biking.

We will start our ride meandering through farmlands, enjoying the fresh air of the Sacred Valley, and landscapes of the Andes mountains. Next, we will arrive to Moray, an experimental agricultural site built in the form of an amphitheater with different temperatures at each level, which grows different types of crops.

Moray was built in terraces, carved before the Incas took control of the Sacred Valley, later continued to be used by the Incas to discover the optimal growing conditions for their crops. Archeologist’s evidence, point that over 250 different types of crops have been produced in Moray.

Then we will continue our bike ride to the Maras Salt Mines, (also known as the Salineras) which is all downhill. Here, over three thousand salt ponds are used to extract salt since before Inca times and still supply Peru with over 90% of its salt.

A hot spring at the top of the valley trickles a stream of salty water, which fills the salt ponds and is allowed to evaporate to produce salt.

Finally, we will continue cycling downhill to Urubamba where we will meet our private van to head back to your hotel in Cusco, arriving around 3:30pm – 4:00pm.