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Kelaat M'Gouna Rose Festival to open on May 6
Morocco, Local, 4/27/2005
The 43rd edition of the Rose Festival of the Moroccan Southern town of Kelaat M'Gouna is to blossom on May 6 through 8.
The event, that coincides with traditional rose-picking ritual and rose-distillation, offers a rich and varied menu to the 30,000 tourists expected to attend the floral event.
In a grandiose setting, the festival will feature numerous events notably folk-dancing and singing, handicrafts exhibitions, banquets in tents, camel-rides and excursions from neighbour Ourzazate down to the valley of the Roses.
Twenty folklore bands, Nass El-Giwane band and amazigh Raysa Tabaamrant will animate the festival besides the Lebanese singer Youri Markadi.
The festival, famous for the coronation of Miss Rose, will end with a street procession in which the main role is allotted for the folklore bands.
Morocco exported 2,132 tons of roses in 2000 of a value estimated at MAD 79,31 million (nearly US$ 7 million).
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