For Christmas I was fortunate enough to receive an alpaca trek experience from my boyfriend Stuart. He found the experience on Groupon and the voucher permitted us both to walk with alpacas for 90 minutes in the beautiful East Kent countryside. The tour group offering the voucher was 'Woodland View Alpacas' and they are a local group of farmers operating at Quex Park in Birchington: a beautiful country park between Canterbury and Margate. I rang one of the staff members at Woodland View shortly after Christmas to arrange a time for us to redeem the voucher and much to my delight he managed to pencil us in for early February. Consequently on Saturday 9th February at midday we set out for Birchington and an exciting afternoon of walking alpacas.
Arriving at Quex Park
Meeting my alpaca
Returning the alpacas
When we'd finished the trek one of the farmers showed us the rest of the alpacas at Quex Park. There was a baby and some pregnant females that they couldn't take out on the trek, who were all very cute. Alpacas really are adorable animals! On the way out we were able to purchase affordable alpaca-themed souvenirs, so I bought an alpaca pin to go on my pin board at home.
I had such a lovely time trekking with Woodland View Alpacas. Quex Park is a beautiful area to walk around and I'd definitely like to revisit in the future and take another alpaca out for a walk. What a fabulous Christmas present, only a stones throw from Canterbury.
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Kat
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Sounds like you had fun, I have always wanted to do Alpaca Trekking, hopefully one day :)
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We had the best afternoon with Woodland View Alpacas. Hope you get the chance to go Alpaca Trekking soon! :)
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Alpaca's are my favourite animals but for some reason I've never done a Trek! Looks so much fun!
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Jess
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Hopefully you get the chance to soon! :) They are such adorable animals.
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Ah this looks like such a lovely thing to do! I love Alpacas! I'll have to see if I can find somewhere more local to me for Alpaca trekking! x
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