Experiences labelled with 'temple of three towers'
In the town of Lop Buri, located 153 km North of Bangkok, you can witness one of the strangest feasts going. That's right, only witness. The food is not for you. In fact the food is not for any human at all! Every year on the last Sunday of November, the local people provide a huge feast for some 3000 long-tail macaque monkeys that inhabit this part of Thailand, the Lop Buri Monkey Banquet. Lop Buri has long been famous for the sheer number of monkeys that hang around the town. The monkeys practically run the place, even take the train to commute to where they know they can find food. The local monkey population have always been a tourist draw. So in 1988 a ...
