This peaceful village, with its well supply of lodgings and facilities for the visitor's comfort, is mainly devoted to the elaboration of typical sweets and edibles from the central European region, ensuring the tourist to attain maximum delight. There are some beautiful private residences raising among banana plantations and an attractive beach resort as La Toma, which will encourage the traveller to take long strolls through these dreamlike scenarios.

The Municipality of La Granja comprises a number of localities, from which Asconchinga at the North is the most renowned of them all.

La Granja presents a varied display of possibilities for the practise of all kind of sports, containing tennis, soccer, basketball and volleyball courts set throughout the locality, allowing the burst of passion and friendly encounter between pals or kindred.

This zone is especially good for pigeon hunting, standing out as one of the best places, within this kind of activity, for international marksmen.

Among the sounds of nature you will find enough reasons to get rid for a moment from your day-by-day urban life, adjusting the proper program to fit your own requirements concerning strolls, footing, horse riding or mountain biking.

WHAT TO VISIT

Tres Cascadas - Three Cascades
This place is located alongside the road to the Pungo, after an approximate distance of five kilometres by a colourful road full of captivating views from the locality of Asconchinga and the eastern slopes of the Sierras Chicas mountain range, towards the flatlands where some of the buildings of Jesus Maria and Colonia Caroya can be spotted from afar.

There are several ways to come to this place. Obviously, if you come in a vehicle it will take only few minutes, but if you want to walk all the way it would take longer. For example, if you chose to walk alongside the winding river, following an upstream direction through the mountains -and trekking with an energetic stride- will take you some three hour time to cover the whole distance (this option is graded as of medium difficulty, able to be practised by people of all ages).

For those travellers who decide to make it on bicycle, preferably with mountain bikes, the overall trip time should not exceed 30 minutes, but keeping on mind that this modality will require from you to be well practised in this kind of sport, because first part of the road mostly consists in climbing up the mountains, demanding from the rider a great deal of strength and resistance.

You will finally find yourself facing these impressive waterfalls formed by the San Miguel River between the sides of the mountains and among curiously shaped rock outcrops which give birth to three consecutive water jumps. For those who are willing to swim within the deep and crystalline waters of the ponds at the feet of these cascades, there are some ideal spots where the water will pour upon their shoulders, providing a relaxing hydro massage to their bodies, an experience we strongly recommend.

The fall of its cold and clean waters produces sparkling foam that soothes the spirit and renews the body. Those visitors daring to make any kind of jump into the ponds must have the previous precaution of personally surveying the landing area, by means of reckoning the underwater terrain to avoid any possible submerged stone or sand sliding the river stream could have brought during any time of the year, but specially during Spring and Summer seasons.