Urubamba and Maras Salt Ponds

The Maras Salt Ponds was another awesome sight in Peru. This was a perfect example of how a town has become wealthy utilizing a natural resource flowing out from the mountain.  Urubamba apparently has more donkeys than humans....which shows its wealth. Many families in the town are allocated a salt pond within the Maras Salt Ponds.......salt water flows out of the nearby mountain and into the salt ponds. Salt is then extracted and packaged to be sold.