Mylodon Cave Natural Monument — Attraction in Puerto Natales

A wonderful and for south america / patagonia a very important archilogal place, because they found a lot of history in the 3 caves which you can visit. As well you'll find devil's seat if you're looking for him (which don't hope). It's worth the walk! If you're going by car go first to the big cave. Then park your car on the parking where devils seat is and walk to the medium and small cave. Wonderful nature and i really liked the small one, which also is really deep! But I loved most the walk trough the wonderful nature. If you visit the place in fall (april) the place it's even nice with the fantastic colour of the...

It's a 5. The cave is on the way to Torres del Paine from Puerto Natales. It is a short (5 minutes tops) walk from the parking to the cave. The walk is lined with quite a few signs with information and life size cutouts of ancient, extinct animals. The cave itself is huge. It has a 3d depiction of what the mylodon looked like. Since bones and skin were found in the cave, they know its size. We were there about 35 minutes but we didn't go to the other caves nor the top of the cave where they say the views are great- but after going to Torres del Paine, we didn't think these views...

Was expecting a kind of cheesy experience and there is the obligatory Mylodon statue at the cave to pose with, but we absolutely loved the hike to the three different caves that are all special in their own ways. The main cave is enormous, much larger than we had expected. We were truly stunned. In the quiet hike between caves we saw lots of birdlife, including a gorgeous woodpecker. Only saw a handful of people on the hike. For the most part it's an easy level hike but start with the cave and the mirador and then hike to the...