PHETCHABURI, Jan 16 (TNA) – An ox-driven cart racing
tournament begins in Thailand’s Phetchaburi province as part of an annual
festival marking the end of the rice harvest.
Ban Lat district organizes the festival which marks the
103th anniversary of the founding of the district featuring a myriad of rural
traditions related to rice farming.
Communities in Ban Lat are represented in the ox-drawn cart
races and other competitions such as bull race. Teams of bullock carts compete in rounds for
their place in the final on Sunday.
In the festival opening at Na Thung Thong activity ground on
Wednesday, rice culture of Phetchaburi was in full display. Organizers of the five-day festival aim to
promote and conserve unique cultures and folk wisdoms of Phetchaburi.(TNA)
