The 9th Halal Qatar Festival will hold today the competitions for local animals in the categories, like most beautiful local camel, at Katara Cultural Village.
Another competition is ‘weight competition’. The participants of this competition can register on the festival website. Animals will be received on the same day from 12 to 3pm, said a release.
The small shepherd competition also witnessed great turnout of participants in which Ghanem Khadr Al Anazi, Rashid Mahmoud Al Enazi, and Saud Abdullah Al Anazi received first, second and third place respectively.
The Young Shepherd competition is participated by children from 10 to 14 years old, in which the participant to prepare goats for milking and choose the best wool. The competition aims to test the information of children related to raising sheep and cattle and related skills and experience.
The festival attracted a large number of visitors from different nationalities and groups, and families visited the festival along their children.
There are designated area for children’s games that include a number of modern games and huge rubber sculptures (hoppers), in addition to providing an opportunity for children to ride horses and Arabian camels.
There are large spaces in the festival square for children to enjoy horse riding, pony and camel and bring joy and pleasure into their hearts.
The traditional food shops and the popular Qatari sweets also attract visitors from different nationalities, categories and ages, as the area dedicated to selling famous items witnesses a great turnout by the public, whether citizens, residents or tourist groups, especially in the evening time.
These stores offer the most popular foods and dishes such as puree, marqouqa, biryani, porridge, and other traditional foods, in addition to the presence of modern food restaurants, juices and sweets.
With the opening of the nine-day festival, the southern area of Katara has become a one-stop shop vibrant with many activities including Al Mazad — public auction of Halal (sheep and goats), Al Izab — barns where different breeds of halal such as Syrian and Arab sheep are showcased, and the Al Mazain — a competition for the most beautiful sheep and goats as its main features.
Different breeds of sheep and goats were showcased in 10 enclosures as public auctions of and competitions among the best breeds of sheep went underway yesterday at the festival.
A Bedouin tent where the process of traditional weaving (Al Sadu) is being demonstrated, from spinning the sheared sheep’s wool to dyeing to weaving using a ground loom is one of the attractions at the festival. Traditional costumes and hand-woven products with traditional Sadu patterns such as bags and boxes are on display at the tent.