MARAS & MORAY

After visiting the Indian market of Chinchero, we continue our trip with a visit to Maras; an Indian village of typical colonial era architecture, before continuing to Moray. Moray is a unique site in many ways.

It is not the ruin of a city or a fortress: it is an earthwork. The ancient people of the region took four huge natural depressions in the landscape and sculpted them into multi-level agricultural terraces that served as an experimental agricultural station for the development of different crop strains.

The terracing survives intact, forming regular concentric layers flowing harmoniously into the land.