Buffalo Racing

Over 150 years of tradition. It started with an argument between two farmers over whose buffalo was faster. Today it's a thank-you to the buffaloes for a year of work in the fields — the competing animals get a special diet and daily massages. Riders on bare backs, a hundred-metre track, plus a buffalo beauty contest. It is tied to the end of Buddhist Lent, so it moves with the lunar calendar and lands in October or early November. No date is given here because the sources checked for this year disagreed with each other and Chonburi province had not published its own announcement — a wrong date on a one-day event is worse than none.