The Hostel and Its history

Everything began in the seventies decade, when the great affluence of young people from all world (mainly hippies) opened the way to a tourist increment in the entire world. 
At the beginning those tourists came attracted by the natural beauty of the sector and because here could find a certain type of hallucinogenic mushrooms (Blue-rings) used for Chamanic or Psychedelic reasons. These people came but there weren’t any place that gave them welcome or assisted them in any way, to exception of Aída Buitrón", a very kind and nice woman who came from Quito where she worked like fly attendant for some years, who came with her daughters searching the calmest and beautiful place of the south-est of the Ibarra’s downtown. Here she found a strong potential and she thought that it lacked a place where the tourists felt like in their homes, although it was in a rustic and humble place. This lady dominated English and she prepared an unique meal in the most careful way, which gave her a great prestige in the entire world, and now "Casa Aída" has an infrastructure able to welcome around 70 tourists, It has a welcoming restaurant, comfortable rooms, hot water, in a rustic atmosphere where the peace and the tranquillity of last decades still remains. For these and many reasons else, "Casa Aída" has been won a high prestige in all world.

History and characteristics of "La Esperanza" 

(Pre-Inca and pre-Columbian cultures)
 
Formerly this extension was an important scenario where the most warring and last pre-Incan culture lived for a lot of time, they were the " Caranquis " which fought to defend during three generations against the Incas of the South (Peruvian), finally it succumbed and the corpses of their combatants were thrown by the Incas to the lagoon-known as " Yahuarcocha " (lagoon of blood in Quechua language). Here the last sovereign of the Inca empire " Atahualpa " seated one of the four strategic points of their empire (Tahuantinsuyo), but in little time it happened the Spanish conquest and the end of the ancestral cultures of this Andean region. It is necessary to mention that millennial traditions still exist and that they have not gotten lost the wonderful characters that demarcated to these ancestral lands completely. At the moment an abundant information of the cultures old, as well as interesting museums exists, where the tourists will be amazed. (to see the link tours, guides, etc.)

(The Ibarra’s earthquake)

The Esperanza was known in the XIX century when in "Gabriel García Moreno’s" presidency, a strong earthquake whipped and destroyed the city of Ibarra completely. The survivors took refuge in "Santa María de la Esperanza’s" town until their reconstruction, and after some time they descended returning to the new city for a street that at the moment is called "the Avenue of "El Retorno"- (The Return). 
 

(At the moment)

La Esperanza is a very productive sector like in the agriculture, crafts (talabartería, embroidered by hand), its great natural width makes it capable for the tourist activity in diverse forms. The Esperanza is the best access place to the Imbabura volcano in all province, its singular geography is due to its environment is located on the center-oriental mountainous limits that demarcate the great valley of the "Chota". Their roads have a great advantage because for alternating roads we can go to places like: the Taita Imbabura Volcano, Otavalo, San Pablo lagoon to the occident, hill Cubilche, hill The "Cunrro", lagoons of the "Cunrro", Cochas,Chilco, Zuleta (the ex-president's from the Ecuador "Galo Plaza Lasso"  property) , Pesillo, Olmedo and Cayambe (Pichincha province) to the south, and the oriental mountain range. If you come to know the hills bordering to La Esperanza it is necessary to be prepared for the cold climate, as well as for the temperate climate because this is the characteristic of the Equatorial Andean lands.