The Lop Buri Monkey Party takes place on the last Sunday of November at Phra Prang Sam Yot every year. Monkeys are a main attraction in Lopburi and bring in many tourists. As a way to say thank you to the monkeys, the local business association put on a buffet party every year.
Richard Barrow's first website about Thailand was launched in 1998 making him among the first of the travel bloggers in Thailand. Twenty-five years later, he is the most well-known of the bloggers in the Kingdom of Thailand. Ambassadors and government ministers are known to be among his followers. During the series of protests and the big flood, expats, tourists and the world media looked to him for accurate and up-to-date information.
