Chinchero and Magical Earthworks Green circles spiral down into the earth, glistening white polygons tumble down a canyon, and grassy step pyramids carve a mountainside--otherwordly landscapes created five hundred years ago by those master builders, the Inca. Between Cusco and its Sacred Valley, lie three remarkable Incan sites--the experimental agricultural circles of Moray at 3500m/14,000 ft, the still-used salt pans of Salineras and the town of Chinchero built upon Incan foundations. While many breeze through all three in a day tour or even combine them with a couple of other sites, I took a slower route. Moray and Its Mystical Circles I'd heard that it was a lovely, all-day walk from Moray to Salineras, and so caught a couple of local buses up to Maras, the Moray turnoff, passing through green, rolling-hill countryside in the end
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