Moray & Salineras, Cusco Dept.

An hour and a half from Cusco city are the Incan ruins of Moray at 12,000'. A set of coliseum like terraces believed to be an agricultural research center due to the fact that an amazing degree of temperature variation and ecological zones are present at the site. Or perhaps the whole site was simply used to dry potatoes. From here we descend to the salt pans of Salineras, a series of 1300+ shallow ponds used to dry and collect the salt from an ancient ocean bed that trickles out as a small stream from under the mountain. This impressive site has been tended by man for thousands of years and has some of the best salt in the world, surely the finest we have savored.