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Old April 29th, 2004, 04:29 PM
Edward He
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Default Horse Festival, Eastern Tibet

Litang Horse Festival originally was a religious festival of the
Litang Monastery. When it was first celebrated 300 years ago, Lamas of
the Monastery travelled around the holy mountain in the morning and
held horse races in the afternoon. The festival was stopped in 1950
for political reasons, and restarted in 1963. Since then the festival
has been much extended. Now it lasts a week, though without much
religious aspect. What we find now is spectacular horse races, Tibetan
Operas, much singing and dancing, withal the best traditional clothes
on display and horse market. Nomads from the area gather on Litang
Grassland to build up their tents and take part in the festival. The
festival attracts more and more people each year, with racing horses
totaling over 2,000 and participating nomads totaling in tens of
thousands. For more details, please visit
http://www.edward-adventures.com/Iti/LH.htm
 




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