Salineras de Maras
A short drive brings the road to a hillside stepped with thousands of small, irregular pools — the Salineras de Maras, still worked today largely as they were centuries ago. A saline spring emerges partway up the mountainside, and the water is channeled into shallow pans where it evaporates in the sun, leaving behind a pink-tinted salt harvested by hand. The color comes from trace minerals in the spring itself, not from any treatment of the salt after the fact.