This time, when I say brown, coffee or white, I don't think of a tasty coffee latte or a latte macchiato, but of thousands of colorful salt pans that capture your attention with their surreal beauty. When the guide asked us what we thought they were, we were quite speechless because none of us ever saw something this unusual.
Usually, I read in advance about the sites I'm going to see on an organized trip, but this time I was completely unprepared, which made this place even a more beautiful surprise for me.
As with most sites in the Sacred Valley, these pools were used since Inca times for salt extraction. Nowadays, they are owned and used by the Maras local people. The water from the Qoripujio spring (if you'll taste it, you'll realize how salty it is) is directed through narrow channels to man made pools where the water evaporates and the salt deposits. Each pool is around 5-7 square meters and there are more than 3000 of them that produce pure crystallized salt.
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