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Al Dhafra Festival competitions kick off in Madinat Zayed

• Al Dhafra Heritage Market is open daily from four to ten in the evening.

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Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, the 15th Al Dhafra Festival competitions were launched yesterday, organized by the Cultural and Heritage Programs and Festivals Management Committee in Abu Dhabi, and will continue until January 22, 2021 in Madinat Zayed in Al Dhafra.

The Al Dhafra Heritage Market at the Al Dhafra Festival opens its doors to festival visitors daily from four in the evening until ten in the evening, offering its visitors many activities that attract different age groups, in addition to its various shops that combine the Emirati and Gulf heritage and the heritage of a number of Arab and foreign countries.

The Al Dhafra heritage market includes about 200 shops displaying many local and Gulf heritage products, and meeting the needs of visitors, in addition to popular restaurants, fast food restaurants, squares and traditional folk councils, as well as a classic car corner, mobile restaurants, the main market theater, the corner and theater of Arab and foreign communities, and others. Interesting events.

Yesterday, camel owners from the UAE and the Gulf countries began to flock to the festival site to bring the camels participating in the rounds of local and purebred hybrids in the camel zayet to Shabbuk, in preparation for announcing the results of the runs for which 75 prizes were allocated, after they were presented to the sorting and arbitration committees, within eight runs of the fairs and hills. To Their Highnesses Sheikhs and tribesmen, amid commitment to the preventive and precautionary measures in force at the festival site and set by the organizing committee in coordination with the relevant authorities for the safety of participants and workers.

This morning, the camels participating in the Al-Mafarid Al-Majahim runs begin within five rounds of the Shraya and Al-Tilad for the sons of the tribes, as they will be judged and their results announced on Friday evening.

The Al Dhafra Festival is distinguished in this session by its traditional, exciting and entertaining theme. The festival organizes camel auctions, for which 82 rounds are allocated to the local, Majahim, Al-Asayel and Al-Wadh hybrids, within six age groups (Al-Mafarid, Al-Haqaiq, Al-Laqaya, Radio, Al-Thaniah, Al-Hawl), and the Al-Mahaleb competition (six runs). ) for the localities and the Majahim, and nine competitions that reflect the Emirati and Gulf cultural heritage, including (the purebred Arabian horse race, the traditional Arabian Saluki race, the falcon bidding competition, the Arabian greyhound bidding competition, the archery competition, the blissful sheep bidding competition, the dates bidding and wrapping competition, the sour milk competition, and the throw competition). Al Qaoud), in addition to Al Dhafra booths, handicraft competitions, folk cooking, fashion, classic cars, mobile restaurants, and many daily competitions and valuable prizes for the festival audience in the Al Dhafra Heritage Market.

Mahaleb contest

The Mahlab competition, which is held on Million Street within the Al Dhafra Festival, was launched. The competition began with four runs for the localities (Al Orabi and Al Khawair) Sharaya and Talad. 40 valuable prizes were allocated to them. The third is 30,000 dirhams, while the rest of the winners will receive valuable prizes up to the tenth place.

The rate of milk production is calculated during the period of stay of the camels participating in the competition, where each participant milks his camel in the milk bowl (bowl), during the morning and evening periods determined by the organizing committee of the festival, and the ring is weighed directly in front of the committee and the owner of the camels, and recorded in the daily records for each camel.

On January 16, the second category of the Mahaleb competition for Shuti Al Majahim Sharaya and Al Majaheem Open), for which 20 valuable prizes have been allocated, will be launched, and the competition will continue until January 21.

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