Experts' Choice Award Salinas de Maras
What the experts agree on
Ancient terraced salt ponds still actively harvested after Inca times, creating a visually stunning landscape of thousands of geometric pools cascading down the hillside near Cusco.
Fodor's "The famed terraced Inca salt pans of Salineras are still in use and also take advantage of a natural phenomenon: the Inca dug shallow pools into a sloped hillside."
Lonely Planet "Salinas is among the most spectacular sights in the whole Cuzco area, with thousands of salt pans that have been used for salt extraction since Inca times." Full review
