A different way to see the Sacred Valley of Cusco (if you are tired of Inca ruins) is to travel 50 K to the north of this city and visit Maras and Moray towns. Moray is famous for the circular terraces where the Incas studied the effect of the different kind of weather on their crops. They did experiments with seeds using the different weather conditions in every terrace to develop new products. Some locals told me they found soil that doesnt belong to that area and were used to test different kind of seeds. In Moray there are 4 circular terraces the biggest one has about 30 meters deep.
Maras is a little town, 20 min. from Moray (driving through a dirty road), here you can find the salt ponds the salt comes from the evaporated salty water from subterranean streams. The locals sale this salt to all the country. The ponds belong to the local people, a farmer can have 20 or 30 ponds and sale the salt in the local market, they have different kinds of salt and products made of it.
On the way from Moray to Maras you can see amazing mountains and local people working on their farms instead of the typical people trying to sale souvenirs to the tourists.
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