Saudi Arabia is preparing to hold the largest camel festival in the world.. Prizes are a quarter of a billion riyals
On the first of next December, Saudi Arabia will hold the largest festival of its kind in the world, which specializes in camels and their beauty marks, bringing together major owners from the Kingdom, Gulf countries, Arab countries and countries such as the United States of America, Russia and France.
It is likely that a number of owners will participate in the festival, owning about 33,000 dead bodies.
The Camel Club, which organizes the King Abdulaziz Festival, has begun to finish the stages of receiving applications for participation in preparation for the inclusion in the 19 categories of competitions for all the six primary colors in camels, where everyone is competing for major financial prizes exceeding a combined quarter of a billion Saudi riyals.
The technical teams finished preparing the table for camel groomers in the sixth edition of the festival, and released the details.
The festival administration has opened the registration period on (the website), and it ends on November 16, 2021, and this will be according to technical conditions, including: that the camels be electronically numbered by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, and the numbered camels in Saudi Arabia are about 1.4 million.
The huge festival is held on an area of 32 square kilometers and is located about 100 km northeast of the capital, Riyadh.
It includes entertainment and cultural shows that make it a global carnival in which about five thousand people work, and tourists from different countries of the world come to visit with numbers exceeding 100 thousand daily visits.
The festival benefited from the Kingdom's ambitious plans with regard to tourism, through facilitating a rapid electronic entry visa from the place of residence, or by immediate action at airports and ports, and it is expected to attract 50 million tourist visits in 2022 AD.
The King Abdul Aziz Camel Festival is causing a tremendous movement on the economic levels by containing popular markets specialized in the exhibits of productive families, in addition to a market for buying and selling camels, which is the largest in the Gulf region in terms of deals and financial trading with a total of close to three billion riyals, or through cultural aspects. With a special source of heritage and human originality from arts and heritage, the festival includes activities in poetry, theater, singing, and entertainment shows that cater to all ages.