Hacienda Cusin is a restored, 17th-century estate at 8,500ft/2,600m in the Ecuadorian sierra. This very personal hotel and its 38 attentive staff and famous gardens are 1 hour from Quito’s new International airport, near the Equatorial line, the market town of Otavalo and 2 hours from Spanish Colonial Quito, via the PanAmerican Highway. Guest rooms garden cottages, suites and salons, furnished with antiques and select Andean craft, most with log-burning fireplaces & beamed-ceilings, overlook several acres of landscaped perennial gardens, ancient trees, and often snow-capped mountains.