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 the foundation of the park in 1987 and its opening to the public in 1996.
Reindeer are also on show at the park.
Buildings include a small museum / education centre, and the shop and café in the visitors' centre. There is also a farmhouse, which is home to 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-themed 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.
