Walking from Maras to the Sacred Valley (the Rio Urubamba can be seen in the background), you come across a huge expanse of prehispanic salt pans that are still maintained by salt workers today. All the white is the salt that is dried from salt water collected in manmade salt bins.
A closer view of some of the salt bins. They're lined with clay and sand that is pounded down to be impermeable so as not to lose the salty water into the ground. Each worker is responsible for maintaining their own bins and adding the water when needed from an intricate system of canals that carry the salt water throughout the complex.
The "ojo principal," from which the salty water flows out of the mountain and natural salt deposits.
Some of the small canals that break off from the main flow.
A woman collecting dried salt from the surface of one of her bins.
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