Travel to Peru: Moray and Maras

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Moray and Maras

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Travel up past small farms above the Urubamba Valley to Moray, where youll visit three circular terraced coliseums, thought to have been used by the Incas as a open-air crop experimentation station, known locally as the Greenhouses of the Incas. Continue down past the town of Maras to the pre-Inca site of the same name. Here, a geo-thermally heated stream collects salt in its underground journey before springing out of the hillside along one of the side valleys above the Urubamba Valley floor. This stream feeds hundreds of small salt terraces, creating a bizarre white-on-brown landscape. The area has been used for salt mining since well before the time of the Incas. (This extension can be done partly on mountain bikes from the hills above Moray down past Maras and into the Urubamba Valley.)

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