CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 224 km round trip from San Martín de los Andes - roughly 4 h 47 in the saddle. On the way it passes Lago Falkner, Lago Espejo, Villa La Angostura and back through Lago Espejo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
A lake mountain road from San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen to Villa La Angostura, Neuquen, via Lago Machonico. Key character: Andean lakes; forests; volcanic peaks. Surface: paved.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 53 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
San Martín de los Andes lies at the eastern end of Lake Lácar, in a pocket of Patagonian forest, and the town itself feels as though it were assembled from the surrounding trees: steep-roofed wooden chalets, carved signs, the smell of woodsmoke in the cooler months. It began in 1898 as a military post, one of the forts established in the conquest of the Mapuche lands, and grew into a mountain resort of around twenty-three thousand people. The Mapuche presence is still strong in the region, and the Lanín volcano, which rises to 3,776 metres above the lake district, is sacred to them.
Read the complete San Martin de los Andes write-up.
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San Martin de los Andes is where the day begins. Next is Lago Falkner.
Lago Falkner is one of the quieter jewels of the Seven Lakes Route, the road that links San Martín de los Andes and Villa La Angostura through the Argentine Lake District. It sits at about nine hundred metres, a long narrow lake pinned between steep forested slopes, and the water is a deep greenish-blue that changes with the light. A small viewpoint and a few beaches along the shore let you stop without fuss.
Read the complete Lago Falkner write-up.
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Lago Falkner comes up 32 km in. Next is Lago Espejo.
Lago Espejo, the Mirror Lake, earns its name on still mornings, when the beech forest on the far shore and the snow on the peaks behind it are doubled in the water so perfectly that you lose the horizon. It sits in the Andes of Neuquen province, in Argentine Patagonia, on the Route of the Seven Lakes, the paved road that links Villa La Angostura and San Martin de los Andes. It lies about ten kilometres from Villa La Angostura, which is the nearest town of any size, and the place to buy fuel before setting out.
Read the complete Lago Espejo write-up.
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64 km in you reach Lago Espejo. Next is Villa La Angostura.
Villa La Angostura is a small town of about seven and a half thousand people on the north shore of Lake Nahuel Huapi, in the Patagonian Andes of Neuquén province, and it has the air of a Swiss resort that was built with local timber and stone. The name means the narrow village, from the slim isthmus that joins the town's peninsula to the mainland. It was founded in the 1930s, and the log-and-stone chalets, chocolate shops and smokehouses give it a cosy character. To the east, the city of Bariloche lies about eighty kilometres away along the lake.
Read the complete Near Villa La Angostura write-up.
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Villa La Angostura, about halfway. Next is back through Lago Espejo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lago Espejo write-up.
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back through Lago Espejo sits at 128 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lago Falkner.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lago Falkner write-up.
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back through Lago Falkner comes up 160 km in. Next is San Martin de los Andes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Martin de los Andes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
San Martin de los Andes closes the day.