Day 1:
River Rafting in Urubamba
We pick you up at your hotel in our private transport, after an hour and a half by car we arrive at the entrance to the shores of our private camp "Cusipata River Lodge", where we will leave your luggage. Here you can enjoy hot showers, baths, sauna and a comfortable dining room.
Our professional rafting guides will provide you with all the appropriate rafting equipment, such as helmet, wetsuit, spray jacket, paddle and raft. After a comprehensive safety talk, we will drive for 10 more minutes to the Chuqui area.
From here we will canoe for two hours in the class river. III and III +. Then, we will conclude the rafting in our CUSIPATA RIVER LODGE ”where we will enjoy a good lunch and we will be able to enjoy a relaxing SAUNA. and you can also zipline to the urubamba river each from 100 meters.
You will leave Cusco around 8:00 am. The first place that you will visit will be the house of the weavers’ association in Chinchero. Here the local weavers will show you the most exquisite weavings in all of South America. Next, you will travel to the ancient and important Incan agricultural testing station of Moray. Here they built great circular terraces where the temperature changed depending on the altitude. As you descend the terraces, the temperature increases. Incas had extraordinary knowledge of climates and microclimates. Plants from all over their Empire were brought here to be adapted so that they would grow at different elevations.
After Moray you will go visit the traditional town of Maras. These houses of Maras feature the coats-of-arms of Incan nobles who lived here during Incan and colonial times. Today Maras is a very traditional town.
Finally, you will explore the Salt Mines of Salineras. This is a photogenic site consisting of over 5000 small wells where salt is collected. Some of these wells are very old. Incas mined salt at this site, and this practice continued throughout the reign of the Spanish viceroys. These days local people let the salt water flow into the depressions which they have dug out. The sun then evaporates the water, leaving behind a residue of salt which is then collected and sold on the local market. You will finish up the Maras Moray Tour by returning to Cusco in the afternoon