The Chonburi Buffalo Racing Festival

It’s not something that you see everyday. Thailand’s buffalo racing festival is a one-of-a-kind. A novel event that guarantees action, hilarity, cheering fans, beauty queens and all the fun of a rustic Thai temple fair. An annual spectacular in mid-October in Chonburi, a city an hour south of Bangkok, the races have been held for more than 100 years at the end of the Buddhist Lent