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Alpaca Connection Tour
Highlights
- Experience a 15-minute educational talk about alpacas and llamas, enhancing your understanding of these fascinating creatures.
- Meet and greet a friendly llama, creating heartwarming photo opportunities that capture joyful memories with your group.
- Feed the happy herd during a 15-minute hand-feeding session, surrounded by alpacas and llamas munching eagerly from your bucket.
- Tailor your visit for special occasions like birthdays or family gatherings, ensuring a memorable experience for everyone involved.
The Alpaca Connection Tour is the ideal starting point for large groups (including disability groups) and bus tour companies, offering a flexible foundation to create a memorable experience tailored to your needs. In addition to group visits, they also welcome special occasions such as birthdays, family gatherings, social club outings and other celebrations, with the flexibility to design an event that suits your group perfectly.
The Alpaca Connection Tour (45 minutes) includes:
15-minute educational talk about alpacas and llamas.
15-minute meet and greet with one of their llamas where they bring out a llama (on a lead), and each guest gets pet him and take some heartwarming photos with him.
15-minute hand-feeding session where guests go into the paddock and feed the happy herd from a bucket – for this part of the tour, you will be surrounded by alpacas and llamas happily munching from your bucket filled with yummy alpaca and llama treats.
Educational chat for the duration of the tour.
Lots of time to ask questions and take photos.
Tour details
- On demand
Features
Service facilities
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- Step free access to the conference or function room
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
- Wheelchair accessible picnic tables (picnic tables require 720mm knee clearance and 800mm maximum height).
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
- Modify their cooking and cleaning practices to cater for people with food allergies or chemical intolerances (could include menus with meals free from: nuts, dairy, seafood, eggs, gluten etc).
- Complies with The Food Authority requirements for allergy management in food preparation.
Operation information
Blackwattle Alpaca – Farm Tours
Surrounded by wineries, with views of the Brindabella Ranges, Blackwattle Alpaca Farm, offers a unique alpaca farm experience. Their alpaca tours allow you to experience heart-warming moments with their cute and quirky alpacas and llamas! Their adorable little faces will have you smiling and laughing the whole time.
This is a private farm, giving you a wonderful opportunity to get up close and personal with their alpacas and llamas. Their tour guides will introduce you to some of their happy herd. During your visit, learn about their quirky personalities, which you will find delightful. Blackwattle Alpaca Farm is open all year round and provides guests with an immersive alpaca and llama experience!
Entry to the farm is free but to cuddle, hand feed and take photos with their alpacas and llamas be sure to book a tour. The farm also offers picnics, catered from their onsite cafe.
Their tour guides will make sure you get lots of magical moments and a chance to take some very beautiful photos with their alpacas and llamas that will make all your friends want to visit!
During your visit, be sure to check out the Farm Shop, which is filled with lots of yummy yarn and alpaca and llama-inspired gifts.
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