Al Ain Falcon Festival

As do so many events in the UAE, Al Ain hosted a world-wide falcon festival and I almost never heard about it. Luckily for us, John and Judy Daniel were in town and so we had just happened to scour the local events listings.

Representatives from something like 75+ countries were in attendance with their falcons, hawks, eagles, vultures, owls, and all manner of predatory birds. We got to see the British delegation demonstrate how they hunt with falcons from horse-back, as well as how the eagles of Mongolia can be used to hunt fox. The culmination to the day, however, was a parade of nations where all of the falconers (and their falcons) walked around the ground so that everyone could get a good look at the birds.

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