Lago Jeinimeni National Reserve

---

A couple of kilometers outside of Chile Chico is the Lago Jeinimeni National Reserve. It is a beautiful reserve that runs parallel to the Argentinian border that contains rivers, lakes, mountains and tons of wildlife. We had previously learned that the reserve contained one of Patagonia's hidden gems, cave paintings. They are not easily accessed which meant that we had to do a "4 km" hike to get to them. We began to climb at 11:30am and by 2:30pm we still hadn't reached them so we decided to keep hiking our own way (we would continuosly find and lose a not so clear trail). We saw beautiful landscapes, tons of live animals and dead ones too unfortunately. While driving to get to the reserve we had to cross a river so we had to get back early afternoon so we wouldn't get stuck.

It was a beautiful day to enjoy with friends, nature and sun.

---

Photos

Driving through a river
Our truck went through a low-level river even though it wasn't 4WD

We had to open the "gate"
While driving we encountered this road block so we opened it and kept going

Hiking trail sign
Our trailed contained various sites even though we sort of got lost and we only saw the first site, la piedra enclavada

We begin our hike
After a steep hill, we begin our hike

Sheep!
We were hiking through sheep territory

The trail uphill
We continued all the way up

La Piedra Enclavada
The 2km mark even though it felt like 10km

View from the top
At the end of the train we reached the top of the mountain

Condor enjoying the wind
Condor flying over us... Argentina in the distance

Our hike... basically
Our hike from left to right.

Huasos
Chilean cowboys