Moray ATV Tour from Cusco with Salt Mines and Tasting
From €62 per person
See availability →A Moray ATV tour from Cusco: ride through fields and mountains on a Honda 250, visit the terraces, taste Maras products and walk down to the salt mines.
The Moray ATV tour from Cusco combines a quad ride with two of the valley's best-known sights. After pick-up at your accommodation in the historic center, a drive of about an hour takes you to the base camp in the Andean community of Chequerec, across fields, farms and small villages.
At the camp the guide goes over how the quads work and what the road is like. Helmet, gloves and a rain coat are provided, and a 15 or 20 minute warm-up lap on the driving circuit means no experience is needed. The ride itself lasts two hours, past farmland, mountains and some animals, until you reach Moray, the Inca site. The guide talks you through the complex, and half an hour is left for pictures, wandering and a snack.
- Moray, with the guide's explanation of the Inca site
- Maras, with a tasting of snacks, chips, chocolates and salts
- Maras Salt Mines, viewed from the lower part, with 30 minutes to explore and photograph
Back at the camp, a van takes you to Maras town for the tasting, then to the salt mines, where you learn how the salt is made and in which seasons it is harvested. The van returns to Cusco and drops you at Plaza Kusipata, near restaurants.
Transport, safety briefing, bottled water and the tasting are included. Lunch, tips and the two entry tickets are not. It is not suitable for pregnant women or people with altitude sickness.