TREKKINGS

Description of the sites to be visited during the year

One of the most pleasant activites is to cross over these impressive landscapes, to talk to the settlers, to look at the animals grazing freely, to gather fruits, seeds. Hiking allows us to be nearer these experiences and be in touch with those sites.

Along the Sacred Valley, we have chosen 2 of the best routes for their invaluable cultural value, splendid photographic landscape, low thickness (?) and safety.

Route 1

Moray – Maras – Salineras(Duration: 6 Hours)

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Moray

Moray ruins .- Located to 3,450 m.a.s.l, where we can see testimonies of pre Hispanic settlement, since they are Incas remainers constituted by circular platforms that correspond to agricultural terraces with a complex system of irrigation that reached these three sectors, which were discovered in 1930.

The site that the Quechuan named "muyus" is the deepest pit whose depth is 150 meters, the height of the terrace is around 1.80 meters. These ruins belong to the Inca age, they used to be an agricultural experimentation center so they created micro climates in every terrace.

Maras town .- Maras is a nice crowded town that still keeps a good part of its architectural colonial beauty. You can see amazing facades made of thin stone, lintels with sculptures in bas-relief, as well .

Salineras .- It is a small brine spring worked with very elementary means by a part of the population of Maras and Pichingoto. These archaeological ruins reveal that this resource was already well-known and used at pre - Hispanic time, it could have been one of the many sources of supply of salt for the inca village.

The technique for the extraction of the salt has been very similar to that used one for nine hundred years or more. During all these centuries this technology has been conserved and that consists of a true hydraulic engineer installation but of miniature, since the pool has relatively small dimensions, constructed in shapes of platforms on one of the slopes of the gorge. Each pool has an entrance channel and vents the water, this way the steam is expected to come out and later the salt grain that is settled in the floor is gathered. The extraction is seasonal; it's done in dry season, from May to November or at the beginning of December. The property of the pools occurs mainly by inheritance.

Route 2

Chinchero–Urquillos–Huayllabamba–Yucay
(Duration: 4 Hours)

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Maras.

Tour from Chinchero's archaeological remains, which is at 3,850 m.a.s.l, the visit starts to the Colonial Temple, which is seated on bases Incas, we get to the andenerías, then we ascend up to the top frontal part of this one, from where we appreciates better the structures of terraces that were a way of explotating the mountain to culture products of the zone. The viewing-point of Urquillos's Gully shows us the presence of the mountain named Shimil, which is a reference that we are in the highest point to get down across the population of Urquillos towards the House Estate of this village.

Along the trek we will observe new archaeological remains, as well as part of the flora and wild fauna of the zone, crossing through a different kinds of climates, up to arriving finally to Yucay village. We will visit also a workshop of handcrafted fabrics. After our tour to Chinchero, we will go towards Urquillos's gully, walking down along the old Inca trail which links to Chinchero.

We will see the different incas buildings, old colonial houses and small villages that accompany on the way. After going down the trek, we will arrive at Urquillos's town, then we will go to crossway landscape route towards Huayllabamba's town and from there, we will cross the highway, towards Yucay village.

It includes:
All the services to these different routes include :
  • Private tourist transportation to the site from the tour starts
  • Professional bilingual guide
  • First aid kit of the first aids
  • Ticket to Moray and Salineras (for other places, the pax has to carry their tourist ticket (BTG)
  • Box Lunch
  • Water bottle
  • Canes for treks (if the passengers need it)
It does not include :
  • Tips and expenses extra
  • Other not written services.

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