The annual Surin Elephant Roundup opens with a dress rehearsal today with festivities continuing to 25 November. Over 300 elephants will perform a full dress rehearsal at the town’s Sri Narong Stadium leading up to the main events scheduled 17 to 18 November. The preview costs Bt10 for students and Bt40 for adults increasing in price, 17 to 18 November, to Bt300, Bt500 and Bt1,000. Other activities on the side of the grand parade are an elephant pageant contest, feeding and welcoming elephants and a light and sound performance “Sueb San Tamnan Phanpee Prasart Sikornphum” (inheriting thousand years of Sikornphum sand castle’s legend) 16 to 17 November. For further information, contact the Tourism Authority of Thailand Surin office 66 4451 4447-8, 664 451 8529.