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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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