PERUVIAN TRAVEL

Maras and Moray

visit the town of Maras, also called Maras. There are salt mines whose exploitation is as old as the Tahuantinsuyo The settlers channel the saline water that emanates from the ground into pools in which, by effects of the sun , evaporates leaving on the surface the salt which is then treated to be sold in the local market Then we will proceed to the Moray amphitheater, formed by four circular terraces which seem to disappear into the interior of the puna, like an artificial crater. Apparently the place was an Inca agricultural research center devoted to experimenting with crops around the different altitudinal levels of their plots (some over 100 m deep). The terraces, built on retaining walls filled with fertile earth and watered by complex irrigation systems, enabled cultivate more than 250 plants.

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PIKILLACTA - ANDAHUAYLILLAS

includes a visit to the archaeological complex of Pikillacta and the colonial town of Andahuaylillas. We begin our tour with the ruins of Pikillacta 30 kms. South of Cusco, considered an archaeological pre-Inca times, location where even the narrow streets of the old city are preserved. Road to Andahuaylillas high and impressive cover of Rumicolca which constituted the main and obligatory entrance Cusco.En valley's population will visit the famous Andahuaylillas Church observed Andahuaylilllas considered as the Sistine Chapel of Peru. The interior contains one of the most beautiful examples of colonial art with its golden altars, murals, paintings and polychrome ceiling. On the way passing through the towns of San Sebastian, San Jeronimo, Saylla and Oropesa, traditional villages famous for their delicious breads and pork rinds.

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CHURCHES TOUR (ONLY CITY)

Visit the main churches in the city: The Cathedral,. Built on the former palace of Inca Wiracocha has many paintings of the Cusco School and its famous bell" Maria Angola ", one of the largest in the world.

church and convent of La Merced One of the most beautiful cloisters of Baroque and Renaissance style. It has a small museum of religious art exhibits Gold Custody 1.30m.adornada with a protruding diamonds and pearls horn-shaped, the world's second largest.

convent of Santo Domingo Koricancha-Temple, the most important example of the fusion of two cultures It was built on the most famous Inca religious center: The Temple of the Sun or Koricancha, comprising a series of terraces the upper platform is a set dedicated to different deities of the Empire temples, the most important temples of the Sun, the Moon, the Stars and the Rainbow.

The Society of Jesus is considered one of the best examples of colonial baroque in America, its facade is spectacular all carved stone, inside a beautiful altar covered in gold leaf built on a chapel is Underground, the church also has a collection of sculptures and paintings a transcendental Wedding nephew of San Ignacio de Loyola and Ñusta of Inca stock.