Hacienda Pinsaqui

... lakes. In less than two hours we had reached the town of Otovalo and our next refuge for a couple of nights - The Hacienda Pinsaqui. Originally built in 1790 as a textile mill and later converted to a hacienda, this is a unique and gorgeous building. Our ...

... the driver, Omar, that our hotel had arranged, and we were off to Otavalo. We decided to spoil ourselves a little and Hacienda Pinsaqui turned out to be a great choice.  The grounds were beautiful with cobblestone paths, gardens, and fountains.  ...

Our first task in Otavalo was to figure out how to change a $100 bill.  After a month in Ecuador we had become obsessed with having small bills because anything greater than a $10 would cause a mini flurry of activity that could sometimes last ...