Festival where monkeys are treated to a 5-star feast
It’s a good time of year to be a monkey in Lopburi, a Thai province just north of Bangkok.
Every year locals have a “Monkey Buffet Festival” where the local monkey population (which sits at roughly 2,000) is treated to a five star feast including fruits and vegetables.
Monkey Festival organiser Yongyuth Kitwattananusorn told Reuters, “The highlight of the food this year is durians and cherries. I paid 1,900 baht (NZ$70) per kilogram for it. It just came from Chile. The monkeys are lucky to eat cherries from Chile.”
All day long, monkeys jump from table to table feasting, with tourists and locals watching in awe. The festival started in 1989 to boost tourism and now attracts thousands of people every year.
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