There is a great deal more to Ecuador than the Galápagos, wonderful as the islands are. Come north of Quito and you reach Imbabura, known lovingly as la provincia de los lagos, the province of the lakes. In a small circle of land you will find the most famous indigenous market on the continent, a sapphire lake inside a volcano, artisan towns and a cloud forest bursting with life. Hacienda Primavera is the perfect base for all of it. Here is how to shape a getaway that balances culture, nature and real rest, and picks up a little Kichwa along the way.
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Slow Mornings, Mountain Air: A Wellness Escape in the Ecuadorian Andes
In the highlands there is an old and beautiful belief that water carries energy, and that a body can be washed clean of far more than dust. During the June festivals, families walk to sacred waterfalls like Peguche in the dark and bathe at midnight in a ritual called Armay Tuta, letting the falling water carry away the heaviness of the year. You do not have to take part in a ceremony to feel the sense behind it. Spend a few days near moving mountain water and you understand exactly why people have always come here to be restored.
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What Makes a True Wilderness Ecolodge in Ecuador’s Andean Chocó
The word ecolodge gets used loosely these days, so let us tell you what it means to us. There is a phrase in Kichwa, sumak kawsay, that Ecuador loved so much it wrote it into the national constitution. It is usually translated as good living or living well, but it means something deeper than comfort. It is a life in balance, with the land, with your neighbours and with time. That idea, more than any brochure word, is what a true wilderness ecolodge is built on.
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Whitewater, Waterfalls & Horseback: Andes Adventures Around Otavalo
Ask anyone who runs the rivers here what water is, and they will tell you it is alive. The Kichwa word is yaku, and it means far more than the thing that fills a glass. Yaku is a being with moods and memory, to be respected and thanked. You feel the truth of that the first time a rapid lifts your raft and the whole river seems to breathe beneath you. Adventure at Hacienda Primavera begins with that kind of respect, and it ends each evening back at a warm table with a good story to tell.
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Ecuador’s Chocó Cloud Forest
There is a word we love to teach every guest on their first morning here. In Kichwa, the language the Otavaleño people have spoken in these valleys for centuries, a hummingbird is a quinde. Say it once and it stays with you, and within an hour you will be pointing at the feeders and whispering it like a local. That small moment is what birding at Hacienda Primavera is really about. It is not only a list of species. It is a way of seeing the forest the way the families who have always lived here see it, as something alive and generous.
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Nuestro rafting secreto en aguas bravas es solo para ti
Probablemente ya hayas visto nuestras comodidades y actividades adicionales. Hay muchísimas y puedes disfrutar de cualquiera. Pero hoy queremos destacar el rafting. ¡Tienes la oportunidad de experimentar los ríos ecuatorianos por tu cuenta!
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Relájate y escápate en nuestros refugios naturales
Conviértete en el creador de tu propia relajación en el jacuzzi, donde podrás desconectar y disfrutar de la tranquilidad de tu mente. En nuestra Hacienda, te sumergirás en la belleza de la naturaleza, saborearás deliciosos platillos y disfrutarás de impresionantes vistas de paisajes deslumbrantes.
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