Walking With Llamas In Liechtenstein & Staying In A Yurt On The Llama Farm

It’s not often you can say a sentence such as “I went trekking with llamas in Liechtenstein”, but as soon as I saw that it’s an activity you can do, I thought where better to do a quirky activity than in a country that’s just as unique?

Not only did we walk with llamas, but we then stayed on the llama farm in a yurt!

Our whole stay in Liechtenstein was fantastic, made better by our time with Lama Alpaki Triesenberg.

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I’ve mentioned a couple of times in other posts that we had to re-organise our plans to accommodate the llama walk, because the humans behind the enterprise were off on their well-deserved holidays the weekend we were there! That meant there was no llama walk the day we were leaving… which meant we had to book it for the day we arrived. That isn’t ideal when you’re not staying in Liechtenstein, because the tours start at 9am!

No matter – we stayed about 5 minutes from the border (though in reality it took much longer than this because we were more than 5 minutes from the train station). We took the bus from Sargans to Vaduz which takes about half an hour, and then jumped on another bus up the hill to Triesenberg. These are both free with the Liechtenstein Adventure Pass and Welcome Pass – you can read more about those here!

We arrived at the llama farm bright and early, where we were able to leave our bags and get acquainted with Marc while we waited for the rest of the tour group to arrive. Marc and his wife Anna-Lena run the llama farm and tours overlooking Vaduz, and they’ve turned it into a fantastic tourist attraction which honestly was one of our highlights of Liechtenstein!

The llamas and alpacas are full of character and mischief. Only llamas are used for the tours – Marc described the alpacas as “little devils” who couldn’t be trusted to behave with us! They also only use male llamas for the walks, and each has his own distinct personality. Once the group had arrived, Marc introduced us to them all.

“Emilio is extremely stubborn,” he said. “He’s not the easiest to handle but he really gets going once we’re in the forest. He’s friendly enough, though. Who wants him?”

Nobody put their hand up eagerly. Poor Emilio.

I stepped forward. “I’ll give him a go.”

Emilio certainly was stubborn. Quite often I would have to stop to pull him and encourage him to go forward in the same way I would a stubborn horse. He wanted to eat grass, much like all the others, and decided to push his boundaries.

And yep – once we were in the forest, away he went!

Don’t mind me. Just going for a run with my llama.

We were taken along the road before turning up a hill through a forest. It was almost comical watching the llamas navigating staircases as we wove our way upwards. And without being too graphic, their poops were funny too – like those cereal dispensers but shooting out loads of pellets! No photos of that, don’t worry.

We walked through the forest for a while until we came to a clearing which should have afforded us some great views over Liechtenstein.

Unfortunately the weather wasn’t great as we were stuck in a cloud that had affixed itself on the side of the mountain – we could even see blue skies somewhere above us, teasing us about the fact we couldn’t see anything. So we didn’t get any super scenic photos, and instead got these awkward photos where we were trying in vain to stop the llamas chomping on grass.

This is roughly the view we should have had a little further up from here (taken the next day from Triesenberg village):

Anyway, it didn’t detract from the fun of walking the llamas at all! It was all about their characters.

It truly was like herding cats – I suppose you could say like herding llamas. If anything, the humans were as unruly as the llamas though!

One llama, we were warned, might spit if you look him in the eye. I didn’t see any spitting incidents, but the guy with him was a little wary. They all kept trying to stop to snatch some grass, so there needed to be an element of discipline and some people were better at this than others…!

As we made our way down again through the forest, Emilio went faster and faster! After the stubbornness at the beginning of the walk, he had a total attitude change, probably because he knew he was going home. Exactly like a stubborn horse, then.

The whole experience lasted more than 2 hours, and it was almost 11.30am before we got back to the farm.

We soon met more of the llamas who were quite happy to say hello!

We left our bags and went off to explore Vaduz which you can read all about in my main Liechtenstein post – but we were coming back for another highlight of our stay!

Staying in the yurt on the llama farm

We were staying next to the llama paddock in a yurt, which is something we’ve never done before in itself, let alone alongside llamas.

The yurt has been done up brilliantly, with space for the whole family. As well as a double bed, there are also three wooden bunk beds. There’s plenty of space to bring food back from the supermarket, with a separate hut containing some basic kitchen facilities, and a toilet (with a picture of a llama which is the only time I will accept this type of AI). There’s also another outbuilding with the shower, which is set up really well.

The other thing I was amazed with was there was a cupboard of games and even consoles like a Nintendo Switch! I honestly don’t think there’s much more they could have done with this place.

The llama farm also has an onsite shop which is open 24/7 on an honesty system, selling a few basics as well as local artisanal products and souvenirs – including a postcard from the llama farm, which obviously I had to buy! They also had a few other souvenirs of their own like hats.

There’s a vending machine with a few of their products up in Malbun, too.

It was nice to spend a bit of extra time meeting the llamas too, as of course they’re the star attraction.

Oh, AND not only do they have llamas, with cows in the next field as well, there are also rabbits! They are so sweet and friendly.

I was really impressed with our stay. It’s not that cheap but nowhere in Liechtenstein is (even hostels are mega-bucks) so I didn’t mind paying a bit more to stay somewhere really unique, and it’s definitely worth the money. We paid 170€ for the night.

They run other tours as well, including an evening walk where you can stop to enjoy a fondue in the forest. This does sound fantastic, but we just wanted to do the basic daytime walk, which is cheaper anyway.

You can also get 10% off the tours with Liechtenstein’s Adventure Pass, making it even more affordable.

This was a fantastic way to end our Alpine adventure, after a week in Switzerland! Liechtenstein is a very unique country, and I’m so glad we were able to do something even more unique while we were there.

Check out some more posts about Liechtenstein as well as our time in Switzerland:
⭐ How To Spend Two Days In Liechtenstein – And Is The Adventure Pass Worth It?
⭐ A Spectacular 10 Day Rail Itinerary In Switzerland & Liechtenstein
⭐ Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken & More: Three Incredible Days In The Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
⭐ A Day In Zermatt & A Million Photos Of The Matterhorn
⭐ Glacier Express vs Bernina Express: Which Swiss Panoramic Train Is Better?