Monkey Buffet Festival
The Monkey Buffet Festival is held annually in Thailand to promote tourism.[1] In 2007, the festival included giving fruits and vegetables to the local monkey population of 2,000 in Lopburi province north of Bangkok.[2]
The festival was described as one of the strangest festivals by London's The Guardian newspaper along with Spain's baby-jumping festival.[3] A photograph from the Monkey Buffet Festival at Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi Province shows a monkey trying to get at fresh fruit and vegetable captured in blocks of ice.[4]