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This is a guided excursion which takes apprximately 90 minutes. It includes a coffee snack with regional chocolates.
There is a snack bar inside the boat. On its outdoor decks, you will find the best sights of the Lanín National Park natural wonders.
Outings are organized all through the year.
Timetables:
Summer -from December thru March- :
Outings: 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 6.30pm (the 6.30pm outing requires prior confirmation).
Ask about spring, fall or winter outings.
Here is a detailed description of one of the most complete and representative excursions in Lanín National Park.
During such excursion, visitors may appreciate the arid Patagonian steppe combined with the Adean Patagonian forest, see 2 volcanoes and tour around 2 lakes, one of them the largest in Lanín National Park.
José Julian Catamaran leaves from Puerto Canoa, located on the Northern shore of Lake Huechulafquen, and heads South, where passengers can get one of the best views of the giant of the Patagonian Andes, the Lanín Volcano and its 3,776 meters of height (its name means "stuffed to death" in the Mapuche tongue).
The Southern face is observed during the tour. Its conical shape is the result of the glaciers that cover its crater. On this hillside, adventurers practice adventure sports such as technical climbing.
These are lakes of glacier origin. Therefore, their waters may reach a depth of over 400 meters and very low temperatures.
One of the most interesting attractions in this lake is Goat`s Island, due to its history and very peculiar anecdote.
Afterwards, the boat changes its course Westwards (the Andes Mountain Range) where it adopts the shape of a funnel. It is in this spot where Lakes Huechulafquen
and Epulafquen join (depth ranges between 1.5 and 2 m.)
Lake Epulafquen (2 lakes in the Mapuche tongue), a water body surrounded by thick forests and snow-capped mountains, is dwelled by a wide range of wildlife species and human presence in the surroundings is almost non-existent nowadays.
The catamaran continues its course up to the "Escorial", a solidified lava river created as a result of the eruption of the Achén Ñiyeu Volcano over 500 year ago. This solid stream is over 7 km. long.
As time went by, the vegetation covered this lava soil giving origin to a very particular phenomenon known as the dwarf or bonsai forest (it is barely one meter high).
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