{"id":174,"date":"2010-03-30T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:55:06","slug":"lago-lacar-lanin-national-park-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/2010\/03\/30\/lago-lacar-lanin-national-park-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Lago Lacar, Lanin National Park, Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Total Miles Traveled:<\/strong> 10,380<\/p>\n

San Martin de los Andes borders Lago Lacar in el Parque Nacional Lanin, an enormous national park stretching from Bariloche in the south to a town called Alumine in the north and covering over 1 million acres. \u00a0 Since the locals say take the boat tour, that’s just what we did. \u00a0It cost about 160 pesos per person ($40USD) and took most of the day – we thought it was well worth our time. \u00a0Note that the tour guides don’t translate to English, but we understood bits and pieces with our basic Spanish skills.<\/p>\n

Lago Lacar is a remarkably calm lake – so calm and clear that the water looks like jello; so zen, that you could stare at it for hours, medidate, and then get a speedboat to wakeboard through it… though, that hasn’t quite caught on here yet. \u00a0Maybe it’s because the water is super cold (the lake was formed by a glacier after all). \u00a0And yet, there was a tour agency promoting scuba dives off a small platform at the edge of the lake. \u00a0 Anyway, check out the reflections off the water:<\/p>\n

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\"Lago<\/a><\/p>\n

The boat stopped at several destinations, including a 30 minute uphill hike to the Cascadas Chachin. \u00a0They rated the hike as medium skill – it definitely gets your heart pumping:<\/p>\n

\"Cascadas<\/a><\/p>\n

And a stop at Hua Hum, near the Chilean border where we met a couple of territorial geese with insatiable appetites that we named “Homer” and “Marge”. These guys “honked” as we stepped off the boat (translated “feed me, moneybags”), would hiss like a snake if the dogs on the beach got near them (translated “get the f*ck away from me”), and then honk again if a human or dog got near the water which was their home (translated “oh hell no”).<\/p>\n

\"Resident<\/a><\/p>\n

And then again, you could get hypnotized by the water:<\/p>\n

\"Lanin<\/a><\/p>\n

Before returning back to San Martin:<\/p>\n

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Want to see more photos? Click here to see more on Flickr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Total Miles Traveled: 10,380 San Martin de los Andes borders Lago Lacar in el Parque Nacional Lanin, an enormous national park stretching from Bariloche in the south to a town called Alumine in the north and covering over 1 million acres. \u00a0 Since the locals say take the boat tour, that’s just what we did. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}