Sacred Valley Highlights – Moon Temple, Salt Mines & Chinchero

We will pick you up from your hotel to start our tour to the Qhapaq Ñan route. We will have a personalized service since it is a private tour that will allow us to make the visits with much more tranquility and comfort.

An approximate time of 50 minutes we will arrive at the famous temple of the Moon known as Quillarumiyoc. Famous for the work of carving in stone made by the architects and engineers of the empire. We will make the visit on the site with the information provided by our Professional Tourism Guide.

Chinchero was an important urban center whose main center was located where the church is today, in its surroundings formidable walls of assembled polyhedrons are exhibited that form retaining walls giving shape to the platforms, we can also see large rooms with windows, niches, doors and entrances.

The salt mines themselves are made up of a set of approximately
4,500 salt pools located in the form of stepped terraces on the middle slope of the
Qaqawiñay hill with slopes of 20 degrees incline to the bottom of the ravine
on the left bank of the Salineras stream, with dimensions that fluctuate around
5 linear meters, occupying a total area of ​​approximately 1.5 to 2 hectares