Ver mas ideas sobre camino del inca, peru viaje, machu picchu. Pdf on jan 1, 2014, oriol beltran and others published maras revisitado. Every three days, during the dry season, workers fill the pools with salt water that comes from natural springs at the top of the maras complex, and when the water evaporates from the pool the salt is left. Our intention was to allow you more time to rest and assess whether your son would be well enough to join us for the days planned activities. A hot salty water flows out of the mountains, one can tases the salty water with a finger. It is amazing how it is strategically tucked away in a valley and the amazing beautifully blended brown and yellow patch will suddenly appear as you turn a corner. The 3,000 pools are fed by an underground hypersaline spring that originated 110 million years ago during the formation of the andes mountains. The town of maras lies approximately 40km 25 miles northwest of cusco just off the cuscochincherourubamba road. There is a gift shop at the entrance of the salt pans whereby tourists can purchased packaged processed salt to bring home as souvenirs. The best known maras are mara salvatrucha and their rivals calle 18. Descargue como docx, pdf, txt o lea en linea desde scribd. I am always very glad if you consider to send me a copy of the publication or a promocode for the ebook as gratitude for using my works. Per our guide, about 300 local families own the 3,000 ponds that are terraced down the hillside. Plus tard, les espagnols ont mis en place des bassins en terrasses afin.
Our group muddled out there on a gloomy day but, even in the gloom, the salt ponds were visually impressive. Maras is a town in the sacred valley of the incas, 40 kilometers north of cusco, in the cusco region of peru. Free standard delivery via ups ground is automatically applied to all orders. Maras activities range from arms trafficking, assault, auto theft, burglaries, drug trafficking, extortion, human trafficking, identity. It is useful as a base for exploring salineras or moray, two significant inca sites. If we were on the coast, there would still have been a hour or so until sun set. Inca created thousands of salt terraces, large and small. Back in the 1400s even the amazingly clever incas hadnt figured out that salt might cause high blood pressure, but they knew it tasted good so they made and consumed a lot of it. The town is well known for its salt evaporation ponds, located towards urubamba from the town center, which have been in use since inca times.
Maras salt ponds amazing terraced pans inherited from the. The saltevaporation ponds are four kilometers north of the town, down a canyon that descends to the rio vilcanota and the sacred valley of the. Almost all maras display tattoos on their bodies as a sign of their affiliation to their gang. Nov 29, 2016 cusco interviu, reportaje a maras moray. Each of the wells has a dimension of 5 square meters.
Tour a maras moray y salineras tours en cusco peru tours. The 3,000 pools are fed by an underground hypersaline spring that originated 110 million. Where the road bends to enter the town, there is a path. Maras, moray and salineras tour half day peru tours. Maras is a city in the sacred valley of peru understand. Maras were hunted by death squads including sombra negra. But the entrance fee is only 7 soles and in my opinion, if you do have time, this is a special place to spend a couple of hours. To get to salineras, you have to hike down into the canyon from maras or up from the road connecting urubamba to ollantaytambo. Heres a quick look at what youll see if you decide to skip the widely advertised sacred valley tour and do this day trip independently or book a tour here so i get a cut.
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