The Liwa Date Festival is a celebration of the age-old tradition of date production. An amazing fact is that around 120 different types of dates are planted in the UAE.
This annual event is a 17 day long festival that is a very traditional gathering which is aimed at facilitating the business of dates. The festival has a lot to offer including a host of traditional activities.
One of the major highlights of the festival is the daily auction of date baskets that attract many high bids; the most recent being the six kilos of Khalas dates for Dhs 40,000. The festival also highlighted the fact that there are around 120 types of dates planted in the UAE.
Lectures on the agriculture of palm trees along with special educational sessions for children, poetry evenings, and Islamic cultural celebrations are held alongside the festival. In addition camel races, horse races and falcon race highlighting the richness of Al Gharbia culture dovetail the festival’s main activities.
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26/07/09
