SafeHouse Farm Alpacas and Cuba Road Illinois Alpacas are excited to participate in National Alpaca Farm Days September 24-25, 2011. Many people have seen alpacas on The View, The Today Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, WGN Morning Show and movies like Evan Almighty so now see alpacas in person at SafeHouse Farm Alpacas. We…
The Alpaca Registry and the International Llama Registry: A History The Alpaca Registry that we know in 2011, which has hundreds of thousands of alpacas, thousands of owners, a corporate structure with a board of directors, newsletter, DNA testing and other high tech trappings was an impossible dream back in 1986. Today’s Registry…
Alpacas live closer to heaven than any other living creature. At midnight in the Andean Altiplano; you can see forever as the shimmering alpacas leap from the icy mountain tops to the diamond set sky of the Sierra. They will reappear at dawn. Alpacas are magical.On many a morning we have stood on our front…
Accoyo Alpacas: A Conversation with Don Julio Barreda Arequipa’s El Tourista Hotel provokes a colonial image created by pink stucco walls, framed by high arches, open to broad verandas which give way to green lawns and giant, gnarled shade trees. The hotel, one of few still owned by the Peruvian Government, is set in Arequipa’s…