{"id":332471,"date":"2023-07-12T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=332471"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:02:59","slug":"saudi-camel-festival-features-prize-pool-of-usd-15-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-camel-festival-features-prize-pool-of-usd-15-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi camel festival features prize pool of USD 15 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 <strong>Saudi Arabia <\/strong>will host the fifth <strong>Crown Prince Camel Festival<\/strong> starting August 1, featuring a prize pool of SAR 56.25 million (USD 14.9 million).<\/p>\n<p>The festival is scheduled to be hosted by the Saudi Camel Federation at Taif Camel Square and feature <strong>589 races<\/strong>. It\u2019ll start with an 11-day preliminary stage for all age groups featuring 350 races and will culminate with 239 final races on August 28.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Saudi Arabia rapidly modernizes, the animals remain a central part of <strong>Saudi culture<\/strong> and are celebrated for their beauty, grace and speed.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Crown Prince Camel Festival\u2019s inception in 2018, it has attracted a huge number of camel enthusiasts from around the world. It seeks to support the <strong>country\u2019s tourism<\/strong> and economic development.<\/p>\n<p>Information is from Saudi newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2336606\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-332469\">Saudi Press Agency<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crown Prince Camel Festival will be held in Saudi Arabia and feature 589 races. Competition is part of Saudi culture and attracts tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":332469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[25918,4977,43682,43681],"class_list":{"0":"post-332471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-camel-race","9":"tag-camels","10":"tag-crown-prince-camel-festival","11":"tag-saudi-arabia-camels"},"wps_subtitle":"The Crown Prince Camel Festival will be held in Saudi Arabia and feature 589 races. Competition is part of Saudi culture and attracts tourists.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}