A new llama riding experience
A particularly beautiful route in the company of these lovely animals, originally native to the Andes, leads through the picturesque Obwalden landscape. With llama trekking in Giswil, children and parents experience hiking in a completely new way, because here it is the animals that set the pace and not the people! The two- and four-legged friends set off together - the llamas, who are used to carrying loads, carry luggage and provisions on their backs.
The greeting among the people is short - but unexpectedly warm is the greeting with the animals. Marlene Ambauen immediately gives the first instructions on how the animals are led and what to look out for. This is how you get to know each other (also among the people). Marlene loves her animals, you notice that from the very beginning. Llamas are intelligent, calm and curious, they learn quickly, communicate with each other by posture, tail and ear movements as well as different sounds - also the contact to humans is established in the same way, you look each other in the eyes. The children soon hug their "colleagues".
On a hill, the view opens up over Lake Sarnen to Pilatus and Stanserhorn. A group picture must be and everywhere Selfies "I and my Lama". It's wonderful to see the peace and quiet as you walk along the little road - only from time to time you can hear a child say "Well, we both like it for a long time". Some animals love to be stroked and cuddled. Llamas belong to the group of the so-called new world camels, which, unlike the old world camels, do not have humps. Already in the 3rd millennium BC they were kept by the Andean peoples as beasts of burden, but also as suppliers of meat, wool, leather and fat. In Switzerland there are several thousand lamas today, and at Ambauens all of them are males bought in from outside. "This way we avoid rivalry during trekking and grazing." Marlene knows a lot about her pets.
