The festival is expected to see owners of around 33,000 camels who will participate in the event set up on an area of 32 square kilometres north of the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Bringing together camel owners from the Kingdom, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gears up to host the world’s largest camel festival—King Abdulaziz Camel Festival that is set to kick off on December 1, 2021. The sixth edition of the Camel Festival will also bring camel owners from Gulf countries, the USA, Russia, and France will join the festivities which will run for 40 days, ending on January 12, 2022.
The festival is expected to see owners of around 33,000 camels who will participate in the event set up on an area of 32 square kilometres north of the Saudi capital Riyadh.
The organiser of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival—the Camel Club has finalised preparations for who will be competing in the 19 categories of the competitions for all the six primary colours in camels, where all participants will be aiming for grand prizes of more than SR250,000,000 in total. The registration for the festival is still on till November 16 on their official website provided the applicants meet the competition’s technical criteria, including that the camels be electronically numbered by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture.
The festival will also include various leisure and cultural activities to present it as a global carnival that provides around 5,000 jobs and stands as a destination for tourists from across the world with more than 100,000 visits a day. In the previous editions, the festival saw its first Saudi female competitor, Princess Sirene bint Abdulrahman. This has encouraged female participation and the official spokesman for the camel club in Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Al-Harbi revealed that women will participate for the first time in this year’s camel festival.