Palacio Imperial Hotel

Northern Highlands


This centrally located hotel has small, efficiently designed, boutique-style rooms and a well-attended Chinese restaurant attached.


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1. Cementerio de Tulcán

0.58 MILES

Who would have thought the coolest thing you may see in Ecuador would be a cemetery? A maze of cypress trees – sculpted into bulbous, pre-Columbian totems…

2. Reserva Ecológica El Ángel

8.28 MILES

The 16,000-hectare Reserva Ecológica El Ángel includes frailejones, rare, otherworldly plants with fuzzy leaves and thick trunks. From El Ángel, take the…

3. Santuario de Las Lajas

9.17 MILES

This massive neo-gothic stone church is built directly against the rocky wall of the gorge where the miraculous image appeared. A gilded painting of the…

4. Museum Las Lajas

9.17 MILES

In the lower levels of the Santuario de Las Lajas church, this museum includes exhibits on the history of Las Lajas plus some religious art.