Qualla: Road of the Seven Lakes https://qualla.com/road-of-the-seven-lakes en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Road of the Seven Lakes https://qualla.com/road-of-the-seven-lakes Road of the Seven Lakes: Introduction https://qualla.com/road-of-the-seven-lakes/ Count them as you drive, because the road dares you to. Between the towns of San Martín de los Andes and Villa La Angostura, a 107-kilometer stretch of Argentina's National Route 40 bends past one lake after another until the name writes itself: the Camino de los Siete Lagos, the Road of the Seven Lakes. This is northern Patagonia at its most generous, where the pavement keeps rounding a bend to reveal yet another sheet of cold blue water held in a bowl of forested mountains. It is less a route between two places than a slow argument that the journey is the destination.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/v/0/road-of-the-seven-lakes-wp/62v0-road-of-the-seven-lakes-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Road of the Seven Lakes: Seven, and Then Some https://qualla.com/road-of-the-seven-lakes/ The seven lakes that give the road its name are Machónico, Escondido, Correntoso, Espejo, Lácar, Falkner, and Villarino, each with its own character: some broad and wind-ruffled, others, like Escondido, the Hidden Lake, tucked almost shyly into the trees. The number is really a p...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/v/0/road-of-the-seven-lakes-wp/62v0-road-of-the-seven-lakes-through-two-wild-parks.mp3 0:06 3 full Road of the Seven Lakes: A Drive Worth Slowing For https://qualla.com/road-of-the-seven-lakes/ You can cover the 107 kilometers in a single unhurried day, and many travelers do, treating it as a string of overlooks to be stopped at one by one. But the Road of the Seven Lakes rewards patience more than speed. Each viewpoint frames its lake differently, the light shifting as...

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