The festival is expected to see owners of around 33,000 camels who will participate in the event set up on an area of 32 square kilometres north of the Saudi capital Riyadh.

Bringing together camel owners from the Kingdom, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gears up to host the world’s largest camel festival—King Abdulaziz Camel Festival that is set to kick off on December 1, 2021.

The sixth edition of the Camel Festival will also bring camel owners from Gulf countries, the USA, Russia, and France will join the festivities which will run for 40 days, ending on January 12, 2022.

The festival is expected to see owners of around 33,000 camels who will participate in the event set up on an area of 32 square kilometres north of the Saudi capital Riyadh.

The organiser of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival—the Camel Club has finalised preparations for who will be competing in the 19 categories of the competitions for all the six primary colours in camels, where all participants will be aiming for grand prizes of more than SR250,000,000 in total.