Ashdown Forest Llama Park
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The Ashdown Forest Llama Park is a large park situated in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, at Wych Cross, Forest Row. It is home to more than 100 llamas and alpacas.
This number has increased dramatically since its foundation in 1987 and the opening of the park in 1996.
Goats are also present at the park, but in much smaller numbers in the 'goat house', one of the three 'original' buildings (the others housing the museum and the shop).
The other, later buildings include the new Visitors Centre and The Farmhouse, which is home to Linda and Keith Johnson, the park's owners.
The aim of the park is to breed and sell llamas and alpacas, and to increase people's knowledge of the animals.
It also gives visitors the opportunity to learn about domestication of species in the lama genus in the Andes hundreds of years ago.
The shop sells llama-centred gifts, as well as Peruvian clothes and food.
[edit] Walking With Llamas
The Park offers a Walking With Llamas experience, an hour-and-a-half stroll with a llama under the visitor's control together with a group of other people leading their llamas through private grounds in the Ashdown Forest.
