This large capacity is often utilised during the Rains Retreat.
Stay for a rains retreat.
The races and the parade are held to mark the end of the Buddhist rain-retreat season, the summer monsoon period that the monks spend in intense meditation.
When the Byzantine fleet and the army finally arrived in 1169, there was some delay, and both armies were forced by inadequate provisions and seasonal rains to retreat once again, each side blaming the other for the lack of confrontation.
When it rains, they retreat indoors to play foosball in an improvised game room inside their favorite hangout, a ransacked house where one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's sons once lived and entertained.
"Once the mid-morning rain had retreated, the ground was bathed in sunshine and Kent took full advantage.
The rare times it rained, we retreated to the glass-enclosed veranda, done up with copper pots and crystal chandeliers.
INDIA'S monsoon rains are retreating this week, a delayed end to a yearly wet season that has become ever more unpredictable as a result of global warming.
That night, taking advantage of a heavy rain, he started retreating toward Virginia.
When it started to rain, the crowd retreated under the trees nearby; a portent of what was to come.
