Tracks ready for camel race in Taif

TAIF: The organizing committee of the Crown Prince Camel Festival has finished its preparations for the main track in Taif Square, and will host its 3rd season from Aug. 8.
The track is 10 km long and includes seven asphalt tracks. Three of these are for camel owners from inside the track, one is for media professionals and television channels transmitting the event, and three other tracks will cater for camel owners stationed outside the track.
Mahmoud Al-Balawi, director of the festival’s technical committee, said that additional maintenance of the track was being undertaken so that it would be fully ready for the start of the competition.
“Maintenance was performed on the track floor, fence and launch gates, in addition to preparing the tracks supporting the main track by totally changing the fence of the 5 km and 2 km tracks,” he said. “Also, the asphalting of the inner and outer lanes of the 5 km track was completed, linking the roads and passages inside the field, in addition to rehabilitating the entrance gates of the field.”
Al-Balawi thanked the leadership for the support that it had given to the festival, which achieved international fame in its first and second stagings, in addition to being listed on Guinness World Records.

Tracks ready for camel race in Taif