Saturday, July 6, 2019

YaYa's Alpaca Farm

It is a beeeeeeeeeeeeyouuuuuuutiful day to visit Yaya's Alpaca Farm.

Yaya's Alpaca farm is about 45 minutes drive from Kansas City, in Cass County. It is a beautiful and happy place to visit. There's about 30 alpacas there to play with, photograph with and feed. They could eat alllllll day!

They also sell interesting products made from alpaca fleece.

Entrance is USD8 per person. You get a great briefing from Yaya. Free food for the alpacas. And, infinity photo-taking with all alpacas who are such adorable and cute animals.

I learnt:
1) A baby alpaca is called a Cria.
2) They do not like being pat on their heads. Necks and backs are fine.
3) They are domesticated animals. No wild alpacas.
4)  They are raised for their soft wool.
5) They are from South America.
6) Alpacas spit at each other when they are competing for food.
7) They will not spit at people unless they are abused.
8) They eat non stop!
Wool
Socks
Soaps
Eddie

Einstein
Karl @ YaYa giving us a briefing about alpacas.


Christmas






Making faces at each other!
Beg, alpaca!


Dad & Mom having fun feeding the alpacas














Nooooooo this alpaca is sun-bathing. It is not dead!









Kansas City, Missouri



Centipede Temple

Wanna go explore a 140 year old Taoist temple on top of a 127 meter hill? C'mon...  
Bukit Jong, Seremban
Ladies & Gentleman, this is Centipede Temple. Locally known as Then Sze Khoon. The old temple is halfway up the hill, on the right side but this new beauty sits proudly on top of Wu Gong Shan or Bukit Jong or Junk Hill. 

Legend of the Centipede:
Once upon a time, there was a young man who left home to seek for fame and fortune. He returned home after being successful but he did not show gratitude and filial piety to his mom. God became angry and turned him into a ship made of rock, that could never sail, and set the ship on Wu Gong Hill. However, a centipede is always seen by or on top of the rock ship. People believed that this centipede was the reincarnation of the boy's mom. The centipede in the photo above was erected on the site where the rock ship was located.
Dragon welcomes you into the temple.

To reach to the top of the hill, there are 176 steps for you to climb. Whaddaya waiting for? Start walking!!!
Wu Gong Shan, Bukit Jong, Seremban
This land used to be covered with rubber trees. Now it is a beautiful sanctuary. Apparently centipedes do roam in and out of this temple when the weather is cool. I did not see a single centipede when I was there! Visitors have claimed that they have spotted white centipedes before and that had brought them luck.

Monkey God looking out at the valley below

Smiling Buddha
 

Koi pond down below




Legendary heroes

Lucky tortoise pond


The Guan Yu pavillion



Guan Yu, the Taoist God of War




The famous Immortals
God of Marriage named Yue Lao