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Salon Bolivar
With its roaring fires, sumptuous tapestries, louche saints and antiques, the restored 19th-century former home of a successful hacienda owner is itself a collection of the culture, art and people of the Andes. The history of our Otavalo hacienda is faithfully revered yet playfully reimagined with mischievous touches; look closely and you’ll find a Beatrix Potter garden cottage, a Bond villain’s secret door, and politicians painted into an indigenous mural.
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400 year Historical Andean Hacienda
Hacienda Cusin is a playground for the worldly-wise, an asymmetric daydream of nooks and crannies, oddities and marvels to explore and to spark curiosity. Here is a place to contemplate life, in a bubble of unusual peace. Here, among the Chopin minuets, working stable yard, and the armchairs and magazines placed just where they should be, you could retreat from the world as you know it to an entirely unknown one, where every hour of every day would hold something new.
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Perennial Gardens
Take a moment to explore the five acres of beautifully landscaped gardens, where the myriad plants and flowers – bougainvillaea, jasmine, agapanthus, hydrangeas, begonias, poppies, geraniums, dahlias, primroses, orchids, magnolia, Aztec lilies… – grow throughout the year, thanks to the consistent equatorial climate and rich soils that were once covered in lakes created by melted snow. With its backdrop of the neighbouring, 15,000-feet high Imbabura, our gardens are a true sanctuary of trees, cobblestone paths, ponds, patios and chairs placed just so…
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The Monastery
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Perennial Gardens
