Lopburi Monkey (Festival) Banquet 2024
November 23 - November 24
The town of Lopburi celebrates, every year, on the last Sunday of November a traditional monkey banquet.This strange event takes place in San Phra Kan shrine and in Phra Prang Sam Yot shrine. In both places there is a large amount of monkeys.
Lopburi is located 150 km north east to Bangkok.
This is a mass feeding fiesta of more than 3000 Long-tail macaque monkeys who live in the area. According to the local faith, feeding the monkeys brings good luck. In the banquet, long tables covered with red tablecloths are placed.
On the tables the celebrators put colored ice with great variety of fresh fruits. More than 10,000 people reach the place in order to see the thousands of monkeys that eat all the colored fruits. While tourists and townspeople may want to rub monkey elbows directly at the table, vendors and food stalls provide sustenance for human attendees.