As valuable treasure of the Pampas of Achala, arriving for the route 28 to scarce 30 km of Tanti, sentries of the Cordovan beauty, The Giants get up (2374 msnm). This granitic mass in capricious ways is at the moment the elected place so that climbers in rock of the whole country debut or practice their best techniques.

In the base the Church of the Virgin of the Valley appears, been founded by Franciscan parents, and the school rural housing been founded by the Brother Antonio Bustamanate in 1968. Further on, two encounter places under obligation: The refuges The Round, of the traditional family Pedernera, habitation time behind of celebrities like Quinquela Martin, Enrique Muiño, Marcelo T. of Alvear and Hipólito Yrigoyen, and Villa Amelita (CACP). Their responsible ones collaborate with the mission of to take care of the place and to guide the visitors.

For the most intrepid, ascending the 2100 m , they will be for their I cover the refuges of mountain of Carlos Paz Andean clubs and Córdoba, this last owner of an ambitious reforestation. The place also offers green mirrors so that they settle carps and the adventure is definitely natural.

For own experience, the team is recommended that, in the first visit, a guide guides the observation. This way won't escape from the astonishment of all, the a thousand forms and hidden corners that this special place has to enjoy.

Leaving The Round, the touched path encourages the admiration to each step. The big rocks, with their impertinent forms and baptized according to the same ones, they drive us toward the superior summits. The Chicken, the Indian, the Oven and the Gorilla are main characters of those unmistakable images of the place.

A favorable road for the trekking is to make the summit of the supreme Hill Mogote (almost 2400 m ) and then to visit in The Cruz's Hill ( 2260 m ).

These maximum points inserts beautiful cascades: to discover them is a special event. The Cave of the Oven, that of the Salamanca and that of the Birds is pearls of the landscape. Inside them, the temperature, the vital forms vegetables and silver cascades give a deluxe respiration to the long walk.

From the summit of the Mogote, sat down perhaps in the marker, the view is strategic: the imposing Pampas of Achala, of San Luis, of Discolored, the majestic Champaquí, the valley of Punilla in its splendor. Very close a guarded stone construction, property of a matter, gets the attention: in so much nature, more than eight padlocks they safeguard its door.

The practice of the escalade in rock is centered in The Cruz's Hill, hung of delicate ropes hundred of youths challenge the uprightness and they are simbióticos characters of the great stone mass.

You can also consent to the summit walking or, rather, giving part to the a thousand dexterities that an intrepid tourist can carry out. He/she doesn't come bad some adrenaline.

They can be sighted from there the hills Bread of Sugar and the Uritorco, the lake San Roque, the Dike The Mills and, in clear days, Carlos Paz cities and Córdoba.

Adrián commented us, our guide of The Round that The Cruz's Hill owes its name to some cracks of its expensive west and I didn't seize to the structure that he/she receives those that climb conquering wind and fear. It also added that The Giants are considered one of the three escalade centers in more important rock of the Argentina , together with the southern hills Cathedral and Fitz Roy.

The gulches and toboggans that are inserted protect tabaquillos, pajonales, ferns, romerillos and peperinas, and they escape from our view small lizards, frogs of colors, birds and hares.

Other walks wait restless steps: the trip to the Valley of the Flat ones, the Cascade of the Manger (beautiful jump of 8 meters that harbors the Virgin María's image hereinafter Auxiliadora), The Lucila (moonstone location), Anselmo's Gulch and the superior drawers of the Yuspe to be given a chapuzón.

The Giants remind us those and another thousand of words that who enjoy with the wind and the sun in the face, with the pilgrim's sweet fatigue and the discovery of nascent paths we look for among their crags the renovation of our spirit.