Tools
Most planning advice about this lake is written in adjectives. These three tools answer in numbers instead, and each one says where the number came from.
Sunset moves by more than two and a half hours between April and October here, so the hour that works in May is the wrong hour in September. This gives the times for every date of the season, including when the light people actually come for begins — which is well before the sun goes down.
Duration questions are really distance questions, and nobody publishes the distances. Pick where you start and how long you have, and this says what is reachable.
Waiting on data. The crossings are being timed from the boat this season. Until they are, the tool refuses to estimate them and says so — which is the only thing that makes the numbers worth anything once they arrive.
Everything that lands on the bill, including the parts nobody quotes: villa tickets bought separately, lunch ashore, the transfer to the dock. Each line is labelled by how it is known, so you can see which numbers are firm and which are ranges.
Each tool renders its answer into the page itself, before any JavaScript runs. That is unusual, and it is deliberate: a number that only appears after a script has executed is invisible to most of the things that read the web, and it is also gone for anyone on a bad connection halfway up a mountain road. Every figure here is in the page as delivered.
They also refuse to guess, and right now one of them is mostly refusing. The sunset times are computed and can be checked against published tables. The crossing times are not in yet: rather than fill the gap with something plausible, the route planner tells you it has nothing. That is slower, and it is the whole reason the rest of the site will be worth reading. That is the method →