Monkeys? With foods? What's happening? And where is this event situated? This unique festival is called as The Monkey Buffet Festival. It is situated in a very cultural country of Thailand. Set up in the province of Lopburi, North of Bangkok, the Monkey Buffet Festival is held for the benefit of the monkeys. The local peoples believe that monkey´s bring good fortune to the visitors.In this festival the ones who enjoy the buffet are the monkeys them self. There are 4000 kilograms of fruits, vegetables, cakes, candies is set down in front of temples on tables, in pyramid or just on a simple mat for the delight of the 3000 monkeys living in the area. The Festival was invented in 1989 by a local business man in order to boost the tourism in the Lopburi province. Since thousand of visitors come every year to see the numerous monkeys filling they stomachs.
These long-tailed macaques are very accustomed to human presence so tourists have no worries thatthey will shoo away seeing people getting near them. However, this could be a disadvantageous as well. They could be very aggressive and snatch glasses and wallets from tourists.Keep an eye to monkeys hanging from trees and wires in the area. Some of them have unpleasant habit like defecating to unsuspected pedestrians. This is not impossible to happen considering the truckload of food offered to them.
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