Thailand's Annual Banquet For The Monkeys

CHAN: Every year, the town of Lopburi in Thailand hosts a special outdoor feast for its most loved residents -- the monkeys.

STORY: This year's monkey feast is the 18th anniversary in Lopburi which is about 150 km from Bangkok. The tradition attracts hundreds of tourists from across the region to celebrate with 3,000 long-tailed macaques.

At dawn dozens of villagers decorate the ancient pagoda of Prang Sam Yod and it houses hundreds of monkeys. Colourful ice blocks filled with fruits and flowers are part of a lavish banquet - 2,000 kilogrammes of fruit, cookies, candy and Thai desserts - a real delicacy for the monkeys. The guests took to the tables with vigour.

The party is organised by local hotelier who says the aim of the party is to

thank the monkeys for bringing tourists to the city and attracting foreign business to Lopburi.

[Yongyuth Kitwatananuson, Hotel Manager]: "I have the hotel, Lopburi Inn, where the business is quite successful. Each year we celebrate by preparing a monkey banquet. Every year as we make the monkey banquet, it seems like our business also gets better."

According to legend, Hanuman the Monkey King was rewarded with the fiefdom of what is now Lopburi. Centuries later, monkeys still rule the area around the town's two most sacred sites. Villagers and other visitors keep watch over the energetic monkeys. Many run off with jewelry, candy and even baby bottles. Despite the nuisance, there is no question that the annual event brings joy to the local villagers. According to Thai beliefs, donating food to the monkeys is a way of accruing good karma.

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[ta2joe13]

this is just sickining wasting food on vermin when there are children starving to death in the slums of thailand. i would think that feeding the needy is a bigger and more worthy of a cause than filthy pieces of shit monkeys

[ta2joe13]

you are awesome. if i could id slay those filthy vermin

[DirtyJimmyD]

lol i kick daaa shit out of the monkeys ass when im in thailand ...

[gearzone2611]

This karma make me sick. Why these people giving food to a monkeys? Theres could be 5% population of the entire Thailand looking for food. Wow, Im pretty sure this beliefs is pretty darn stupid ang mindless! People are hungry yet they're obtaining to have a good luck or some stupid so called 'good karma'.

[Cocoabrothaa]

Pfft....there still little bad asses!. They took my water!

[jeremedia]

Yes, that is awesome.