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Llamas are hilarious and they know it.

I have no idea how I lived in Huntsville for almost three years without visiting the Harmony Park Safari. Although I’m not much of a zoo person anymore, I can totally get on board with a drive-through safari.

Animals including deer, goats, llamas, miniature horses, a bison, a zebra, and a small variety of fancy-looking cattle will come right up to your vehicle door, expecting a handful of corn.

Note: Buy at least one bucket of corn for $5 at the entrance. Do you really want to be the one piker on the whole safari path who doesn’t feed the animals? They can smell cheap, you know.

The drive-through park is open from 10 a.m. until sunset March through November. It’s an awesome way to spend a fall or spring afternoon. Summer afternoons I cannot vouch for, since intense heat and pasture animals can be an odorous combination.

Entry fee is $6 a person. If you’ve got kids who are in any way scared of large animals, don’t bring them, because the animals are decidedly not scared of you and will hover menacingly next to your vehicle. Especially the emus.

Harmony Park is located at 431 Clouds Cove Road SE. Google Maps will get you there, but it’s a rural area and cell service is spotty, so you may not be able to follow the blinking blue dot the whole way.

He's tiny, but he's persistent.

African tortoises taking a nap in the reptile house.

Fancy livestock abound.

Technically you should keep your arms inside the vehicle. I married a rebel.