Saudi Arabia will choose the most beautiful camel
Riyadh will host the annual beauty contest among the camels. The winner of the competition will receive a cash prize in the amount of $ 30 million.
It is expected that in the contest which bears the name of king Abdulaziz and will be held from 19 March to 15 April in the Saudi capital, will be attended by approximately 300 thousand animals, reports the Daily Mail.
The camels will compete inside the rocks.
Their beauty is planned to be assessed according to several criteria. Their number will include the head size, neck length, roundness and size of the hump, the size of the eyes, elongation of the eyelashes, and so on
Will be particularly assessed how well the animal’s lips close to his teeth.
The course is devoted to the camel of celebration it is also planned to organize competitions of poetry and folk songs, as well as auctions for the sale of camels. The winners can then be sold for prices that make up the millions of local dirhams. Traditionally in the country, the market prices of camels in anticipation of the holiday to increase by about 70%.
The celebration usually attracts millions of visitors not only from Saudi Arabia but from all over the world.
Earlier it was reported that Somali gunmen hijacked a herd of two thousand camels in the South of the country.