Web Desk (November 4, 2017): Visitors from across the world witnessed a spectacular view as around 270 boats, their crew dressed in colorful T-shirts, began competing along a stretch of the Tonle Sap river that runs in front of the royal palace in Cambodia.
Fireworks add to the beauty of the three-day festival, which is celebrates every year when monsoon rains bloat the Mekong river, pushing the waters of the smaller Tonle Sap in the other direction.
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According to the locals the water festival is celebrated to thank ancestors who won the fight with enemies and to thank rivers that provide water for all people.
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