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Gardens with views of Callo mound, Cotopaxi, Ilinizas and Chimborazo volcanoes.

"From this dike, which divides the waters of the Southern Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, one can glimpse, an interminable prairie covered by pumice stone, the ruins of the House of the Inca Huayna-Capac, together with the Panecillo or Sugar Bun. The Panecillo, rising eighty meters above sea Level, is a hillock littered with small brush of the genus Molina, Spermacoces and Cactus. The indigenous, or natives, are certain that this hillock, resembling a bell and extremely regular in shape, is a tumulus, one the hills that the country´s ancient inhabitants built to bury their princes of illustrious persons. In support of this theory, the natives claim that the Panecillo is made up of volcanic rubble throughout its base as in its peak or summit. " ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT