Every year Palm Springs pays homage to its unique composition of Indian heritage with the National Date Festival and County Fair. This yearly event features games and events for the entire family! Taste delicious Arabian recipes from the East that will make your mouth water.
You will be given a chance to purchase rare and exotic produce from vendors that make it out to the Palm Spring area but once a year just for the National Date Festival and County Fair event. Watch in amazement as this festival calls for the strange and amusing tradition of camel racing. Trained professionals try their luck at a loping camel or ostrich race that always ends with a surprise.
The National Date County Fair features livestock from local farms, and some will offer strange and exotic animals for purchase. There will be over 1,000 exhibits including gems, minerals, arts and crafts inspired by this art of the middle-east. There will be many contests, as well as live musical entertainment from band performances to musical presentations. There will even be a National Date Festival and County Fair Arabian Nights Pageant.
Take the kids out to the National Date Festival carnival for incredible rides, and fun games and prizes, and don’t forget to be there for the highlight of the entire fest; the Blessing of the Dates Ceremony. Learn about the Palm Springs Arabian history in an interactive environment every weekend starting mid-February, 2010 with the National Date Festival and County Fair. For more information about this annual event, call 811.FAIR.
