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Thailand: couples tie the knot on elephants on Valentine's Day

Fifty-two couples got married while riding elephants on February 14, in an annual Valentine's Day mass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in the eastern Thai province of Chon Buri.
Thailand: couples tie the knot on elephants on Valentine's Day ảnh 1A couple rides an elephant during a Valentine's Day celebration at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chon Buri on February 14. (Photo: Reuters)

Hanoi (VNA) - Fifty-two couples gotmarried while riding elephants on February 14, in an annual Valentine's Daymass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in the eastern Thai province of ChonBuri.

Dancers and a band led the procession of elephants andcouples and a local official, also on an elephant, oversaw the signing of themarriage licences.

"For me, I've been planning for a long time thatif I were to sign a marriage licence one day, it must be an extraordinaryevent," groom Patiphat Panthanon, 26, sitting beside his 23-year-old bride,was cited by Bangkok Post as saying.

The elephant-back wedding is an annual event at theNong Nooch Tropical Garden which usually attracts up to a hundred couples. Butthis year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the numbers were down.

Kampon Tansacha, the venue’s managing director, saidthat due to strict screening protocols for visitors, people were feeling saferand have started to come back to visit the botanical park, which showcasesre-creations of landscaped gardens from around the world.

The tourism-reliant country has yet to lift a travelban imposed last April to curb the outbreak, keeping most foreign investorsaway./.
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