My friends and I stopped here for about an hour on a day tour to some of the sites nearby (within 2 hours of) Cusco. While there isn’t a tour or particular “activity” to do here, these natural salt flats are amazing to see in...More

The salt ponds take your breath away as you approach on a narrow dirt hillside road. The naturally salty spring from the Andes has been exploited for salt from Inca times by creating terraced ponds on a steep hillside. Take a tour from Cusco or...More

Sometimes the lines of cars and buses going in and out of here is challenging so you might want to plan your visit for early in the day... this is an amazing process to see. The salt spring wells up from the volcanic rocks, and...More

I wasn't expecting too much but the place is really interesting to be visited... not to mention the rare opportunity to buy an excellent quality salt!

Beautiful salt terraces, where salt is harvested by evaporation. You can walk around the top of the terraces, look at them up close, even taste the water which is feeding them. Not busy when we were there, definitely recommend.

Please dont do the same mistake as me and dont go as a part of a group tour. The guide was constantly pushing us whenever we stopped to take a picture, cause we had to hurry to a store where his friends would sell us...More

Very interesting how the salt mines are owned and worked. Learned that each layer of salt (there are 3) are used for different purposes. We were able to see a person mining the salt. This should definitely be a stop when in Peru!