The Monkey Buffet Festival, held each year (November) in
Lopburi, Thailand, is meant to promote tourism in the area and to
give the local monkey population something to celebrate.
According to Sky News Australia, the feast at the Pra Prang Sam
Yot temple attracts many of the area's 2,000 monkeys. Hopefully it
was worth it for the monkeys as their feast cost around
$16,000.
A monkey eats fruit in front of an ancient temple during the
annual "monkey buffet" in Lopburi province, about 100 miles north
of Bangkok on Nov. 27, 2011. More than 2,000 kilos of fruits and
vegetables were offered to monkeys during the annual festival to
help promote tourism in the area.
