Peruvian Paso Fino Horseback Riding Moray Half Day
Level : Easy ride, no experience required.
Location : Moray
Duration : 5 hours from Cusco approx. (2 hours riding approx.)
Season : All year round
Departures : Every day. All year round
Unique horseback ride visiting villages and agriculture crops at Moray plateau.
Itinerary description
We will pick you up from your hotel and drive you Maras, here we will meet the horses and passengers will receive the safety explanation. We will follow ancient trails and start the uphill ride; on the way, we will appreciate Andean communities with its traditional houses built with adobes (mud bricks) and crops fields. After riding 1 hour we will arrive to the highest point of the tour (K´asa) from this place we will enjoy the beautiful views of Urubamba chain that surrounds the Sacred Valley with snowcapped mountains of Pitusiray, Chicon and Veronica. Continuing with our riding we will have the first views of the Moray terraces, arriving there after 2 hours riding, we will dismount our horses to visit this place.
Moray was used as an Inca laboratory to acclimatize their crops. Ancient people of the region took four enormous natural depressions in the landscape and sculpted them into several levels of agricultural terraces that served, hundreds of years ago, as an experimental agricultural station for the development of different strain of crops. After visiting this place, we will return to Cusco.
Riding time: Ranch to Moray (2 hours)
Rider´s weight: Max. 85 kg. (187 pounds)
Price includes:
- Private transportation
- Professional English speaking guide
- Muleteer
- Leather mount
- 1 Peruvian Paso Fino horse per client
- Helmet and gloves
Price does not include:
- Picnic lunch
- Entrance fee to attraction
- Alcoholic beverages in included meals
- Tips
- Extras not mentioned in itinerary
- Extra muleteer $25