Cusco Mountain Biking: Maras, moray & Salineras
- The Maras Moray tour is the perfect Cusco mountain biking one-day tour. This tour will take you through some of the most beautiful landscapes in Cusco. You will be biking through the Peruvian Andean Mountains and the spectacular archaeological sites of Moray and the Salineras (salt mines from before Incan times) until you finish in the Sacred Valley.
Trip itinerary
Early in the morning we will collect passengers from their hotels for a 1-hour bus ride passing small Andean villages and beautiful landscapes. Before we start our biking tour, your guide will give a safety instruction talk about how to maneuver the bikes.
We begin the tour going downhill for about 15 minutes until we arrive at a scenic viewpoint where we can see the spectacular scenery of the Sacred Valley together with the snow-capped mountains of the Veronica, Sahuasiray, Chicon and more.
We continue on a rocky path downhill for 45 minutes through the town of Maras and thereafter to Moray, a unique Inca complex, which is said to have been an experimental center for agriculture. While we are enjoying the view of this magical place, we will have a nice picnic lunch.
After a nice rest, we continue to the salt flats of Maras (Las Salineras de Maras), salt mines that captured saltwater from a natural spring already before the times of the Incas. It is a fascinating experience to visit this scenic place at the beginning of the Sacred Valley.
We finish our Cusco mountain biking tour in the Sacred Valley when our private vehicle will be waiting for us near to the Urubamba river to take us back to Cusco.Will you like to connect your biking trip with Machu Picchu? Check out our active adventure trips and send as a request.
What’s included?
Meals: 1 Lunch
Gear: All biking gear, mountain bike with disc brakes and suspension, helmets as well as knee and elbow protector.
Transport: Transfer from and to your hotel in Cusco, private transport/support vehicle (in case someone cannot continue the tour by mountain bike).
Guide: English-speaking guide, certified in rescue and first aid course.
Fee: Entrance to the Maras salt mines and to the Moray complex.What’s not included?
Breakfast, tips, alcoholic beverages, hotel.
What to bring?
Clothing: lightweight long trousers, shorts, fleece/thermal top, sport shoes or boots.
Sunblock, sun glasses, hat and other things you consider important.Safety
Customers personal safety is our main concern. We continually safety-check all our biking gear, making sure that they are 100% up to for the next trip. We provide helmets, body protection, gloves, elbow and knee protection. Our guides have been working with biking tours for years in Peru and other countries, they know our history and culture, and they are all certified in advanced first aid.
Departure dates.
Daily departures at 7 am.
Guarantee departures with minimum of 2 people and our maximum number per group is 12. In case of larger groups we will add another guide and separate the group in two for better understanding during the guiding.Season: All year round.
