The Monkey Buffet festival held every 25th November every year at Thailand. All of this started since 1989. The concept for this festival at first is ingenious concept of hotelier based on first feted the monkeys,Yongyuth Kitwattananusont. The main temple for the festival is at Lop Buri, the site of 10th-century Hindu temples built by a Khmer dynasty. Lop Buri is located 180 km away from Bangkok and it is said that Lop Buri was founded over 1000 years ago by King Kalavarnadish who came from region in the northwest in India.
Local people believe that monkey give good fortune for them. In Thailand, they believe that King Rama give a land that known as Lopburi to Hanuman who was the King of Monkey. Based on that reason, local people prepared pound of foods ( fruits and deserts ) every year and let the monkeys eat all of them. This festival attract the tourist to come here every year to join and see their celebration towards all those monkeys.
Not only the monkey be an attraction at that day, there's several local people that wears like a monkey, monkey mask and monkey costumes. There also have music and dancers to make the festival become more happening and let the tourist know about their traditional dance.
For the day, do not take any food on the table or the monkeys will get mad at you because the moment just one per year. So do not disturbed them. Let them free. But the tourist still need to watch out their things because the monkeys love to make a stolen collection.
