How about going for a walk near your home to discover our friends the alpacas?
It is now possible, in many European alpaca farms, to go for a walk with their alpacas. It is a way to get to know these animals in a playful way and in the open air. Different levels of walk are proposed according to your capacities. You will discover their living environment, their breeding, their breeders and many other things, and all this close to your home! Alpacas are herd animals that like to move in groups. You will be accompanied by several alpacas on this walk! You have nothing to fear from these animals of a rare gentleness and cuteness. Open to all, this walk will offer you a privileged moment with our friends the alpacas.
Possibility to go for a walk with alpacas near your home!
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It's new! BellePaga launches a brand new platform, referencing the alpaca farms near you, where it is possible to visit the place and make a walk.
Indeed, many alpaca farms located in many European countries offer to their visitors a walk with their alpacas. It is now possible on the BellePaga website, to find an alpaca farm near the place where you are located. You will then be able to go directly to the farm's website and schedule your meeting and ride with the alpacas.
Description of the activity:
During this walk, you will discover the environment in which the alpacas live within their breeding. Concerning the breeding conditions, the respect of the animal condition is essential for the breeders and BellePaga and is respected. That is why BellePaga guarantees that the alpacas are free to roam in a place similar to their natural habitat, without any enclosure or barrier. Alpacas are treated and respected as free and dignified living beings.
Why go on a walk with alpacas?
The alpaca is the perfect partner for a walk. It is a particularly gentle and kind animal. Children love alpacas because they are caring, loving animals with cute, funny little heads. It can be considered the cutest animal ever.
During this walk with the alpacas you will learn to know this animal, having an educational presentation of the alpaca by one of the breeders. You will also have the opportunity to visit the farm and its surroundings. Throughout the activity you will be accompanied and followed by professionals and you will be able to walk with the alpacas held in tether. You will be able to feed them, pet them, spend a night on site or organize an event... Each farm offers different activities and different options that you can discover on our website.
A walk with alpacas is an entertaining activity that is out of the ordinary but above all a unique experience that will delight young and old alike!
European alpaca farms
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Alpaca farms are suitable places for these curious, peaceful and majestic animals.
For breeders, creating an alpaca farm is not a simple task. In order to become an alpaca breeder, one must first undergo a very selective and rigorous training for about ten years. After this training, an alpaca breeder can start to build up a herd of several alpacas, while taking care of their well-being and their adaptation to this new environment, because the alpaca is an animal that needs a lot of attention and affection.
Alpacas are animals that originate from the Andean highlands. They belong to the family of domestic camelids. They have an elegant, fine and racy look. Entirely covered with an extraordinary wool, alpacas are characterized by their straight and pointed ears with a rounded back, a long neck and two toes with two pads and two nails. They weigh between 60 and 80 kilos for a size varying between 90cm and 1m. Their life expectancy is about 20 years, they acclimatize easily to their living environment as long as they are not alone. Indeed, alpacas have a gregarious instinct and need to be in the company of others. It is vital for their happiness to share their living environment with other alpacas. They also need a lot of space to run. Their diet consists mainly of grass, brambles, foliage and hay.
Often confused with the llama, the alpaca is smaller, more fearful and much less aggressive than the llama. The alpaca is a gentle, sociable, intelligent, reserved and very harmless animal. When you are in contact with an alpaca, it is possible to establish a peaceful, harmonious and fusional relationship. Their education is relatively easy because they are harmless animals with a gentle and very docile character.
Alpaca breeders create a relationship with each of them. This one remains soothing and very serene. It is an anti-stress animal, which brings tenderness and comfort.
You can be sure of one thing: alpacas will love you! They are sociable and affectionate with everyone including other animals.
So come and visit them in their farms during a walk near your home!
Alpaca farms in partnership with BellePaga
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BellePaga is a brand of natural, comfortable and elegant clothing and accessories made of Alpaca wool. It is a new brand that finds the perfect balance between comfort, warmth and elegance, with a modern and refined style that is a soft mix between natural and urban.
The main quality of BellePaga products is the alpaca wool used, fine, soft, light, warm and silky, also called "the wool of the gods". Thus, the exceptional virtues of BellePaga products come directly from the alpaca animal! Today, thanks to BellePaga, the qualities of this marvelous natural fiber are available in a variety of elegant clothing and accessories. They offer an incredible experience of comfort, warmth and softness.
Alpaca and its extraordinary wool are not well known in our continent. BellePaga offers the possibility to those who wish to do so, to meet the alpacas in their natural habitat. Through a walk near your home, you will spend a unique moment with these animals and discover them in all their splendor.
At the end of this alpaca walk, you will be able to discover a selection of BellePaga items and try an incomparable experience of softness.
BellePaga is a committed brand, which has chosen to promote the Alpaca which is an animal that has a very low impact on the ecology. This is why BellePaga wishes to offer the possibility to discover the virtues of this animal.
Here are a few anecdotes about alpacas and their wool!
- The alpaca is a particularly enduring and versatile animal. It can be confronted without any problem to drastic temperature variations thanks to its thermoregulatory wool.
- Alpaca wool was selected by NASA to dress the cosmonauts during the Apollo 11 mission. We can thus say that alpaca went to the moon! Indeed, the exceptional virtues of alpaca wool offering thermoregulation, warmth, comfort and softness were perfect for this trip to the unknown land.
- Alpaca wool is one of the most ecological in the world; their fiber is recyclable and biodegradable, one of the most durable and resistant over time. Alpacas do not pull up grass when they feed, but cut it. This allows the grass to grow back quickly. It does not damage the pastures because instead of hooves there is a soft pad and a nail.
- Alpaca wool is also called "wool of the Gods" because in the past, in the lands of the Inca Empire, alpaca was worth more than gold. The most precious good of the empire remained the alpaca cloths, reserved for the emperor and the nobility.
- It was frequent in Peru in 500 BC, to bury oneself with one's alpaca. Considered as a particularly noble animal, precious and sign of wealth but also as a sacred animal, some owners were buried with their alpacas.
All these anecdotes prove that alpaca wool is unbeatable and out of the ordinary. Too little known, this wool of the Gods must be valued and put forward.
BellePaga offers you the possibility to test this divine wool with its products for men, women and house, in 100% baby alpaca, like the Warmi Poncho, the Suni scarf, the Tawa hat, the Inti gloves, the Panaca sweater or our best-seller, the socks!
You can find part of our collection in our breeders' stores!
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