And so does shape. To tell a llama from an alpaca you have a look at its ears and its bum. Banana shaped ears curving inwards and you have a llama. A low set tail that demurely covers the nethers and you have an alpaca. Llamas are also normally larger. for us, size is an issue mainly in relation to distance or, more specifically, distance between places you want to visit. After months in Europe, the UK and Central America the size of South America is taking just a little getting used to. Not that Peru, for instance, is really that large. It is just very long. In no country is it possible to get to every place you want to see or experience. That, for us, has been one of the rules of travel. Perhaps
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