Hacienda Cucin - an old Farm House and a Monastery - beautiful rambling gardens.
A walk through a rural garden
Hacienda Cusin is a restored grand old Farm House (Hacienda) attached to a monastery not far from Otovalo in the mid-north of Ecuador.
Ecuador used to be part of Gran Colombia, a realm with a chequered history, dominated by the Spanish and then glamorised by the likes of Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan who fought for independence so passionately against the Spanish 200 years ago. The stories, it must be said, have been glamorised to some extent.
Jutting out into the Pacific Ocean this Latino country was the first to be dubbed "Banana Republic" - Cusin was one of many farms to have encompassed huge tracts of country. Land reforms saw these holdings portioned off. Very few sizeable properties remain in family hands. As with so much of the world, three corporates account for about 80% of the country's produce.
Haciendas punctuate the whole country, only to tell of a bygone era.
Hacienda Cusin, now finely resored still retains its kitchen gardens.
Now a peaceful hotel, the kitchens are well served by a vegetable garden set within the old formal gardens of the family home.
I hope you enjoyed a stroll around this Ecuadorian garden.
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O my beautiful I must say what stunning photos
How kind you are! They are all mine so your comment is doubly appreciated!
It does look stunning .. I love my garden but im very jealous lol it looks bliss
It is now owned by a very English Englishman who is a good friend. His wife, whom I barely know, sadly, is on the Board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and so their visits are less frequent than I would like! Thank you again for your kind words. I shall follow you and look forward to seeing your arrays of colour! I tend to be the constructor of pergolas (my favourite) and landscaper!
Nice photos
Thank you, how kind of you to comment - I am pleased to be able to say that they are all mine! Very thoughtful of you to stop and comment! It sounds like you are a travel fan so I am following your exploits!
Omg ! That's so beautiful ! Do you live there ? I know that plant . It reproduces those flowers really fast . I got those in my house in Bali as well
Do I live there? I wish ... actually I really do wish ... It is one of two houses I really covet here - should I admit that? Here is the other - where Guayasamin lived. He was the most famous artist Ecuador ever had - but a pig of a man. It really is a beautiful house and that terrace - very perfect for quaffing rosé on a sunny afternoon!
Where in Bali? I know the south east corner a little, having been there a few times from Australia. My cousin has a house in Sanur. My steemit introducer lives up in Ubud!
It was more like a funny question, feeling your wish, wanting to live there.
Oh well, Bali is a long story because I pretty much lost everything but yes I did live in Sanur Jalan Blanjong close to the beach for many years , then I moved to my then Balinese family house in Suwung, also close to Sanur. 10 years Seminiyak was more than enough. Actually 16 years Bali is too much. Haha! I never clicked with the expat community in Ubud. This island holds some interesting but also very wacky people.
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