Maras Salt Terraces

Cusco Department · Peru

Maras Salt Terraces, Peru
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to September
Budget
$
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Thousands of small salt pans cascade down an Andean hillside, fed by a warm saline spring since Inca times. Families still harvest salt from the terraced pools in a centuries-old communal system.

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