Between Puerto Natales and Rio Serrano was the fascinating Mylodon Cave (Cueva del Milodón) Natural Monument. This location has three caves: large, medium and small and is the place where evidence of humans living here dating back to 6000 BC. The first cave has a statue of a life sized Mylodon, a herbivore that went extinct thousands of years ago. A preserved piece of shin from a Mylodon was found in one of the caves here which is how the site gets it's name.

We spent a total of about 2 hours here. The large cave is right at the welcome center and was fascinating but then we walked over 1KM to the medium sized cave and enjoyed that as well. Along the way the kids loved to climb around the large hills and rocks in the area. They also found a large animal bone from an unknown animal. We pretended it was a fossil.

During our walk between the caves the weather went from warm T-shirt weather to sleep and snow and back to T-shirt weather in the course of about 5 minutes. Such is the weather in the area.

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