HYDERABAD: The three-day KiteFestival held in city at Aga Khan Academy near RGI Airport, Shamshabad concluded on Sunday. But if you missed it in Hyderabad because you were travelling or busy, you can still catch it at Warangal on Tuesday. Warangal is a three-hour drive from the city.
Kite 2017, is the Telangana State’s second international kite festival. It is also the second biggest kite festival in India after Gujarath, disclosed B Venkatesham, Principal Secretary, Tourism, Government of Telangana.
After curtain raiser night flying event on Thursday t Necklace road where remote controlled kites were demonstrated, the festival opened with a cultural programme and “Entertain and Educate – Inclusive Schools Program” on Friday. The formal International Kite Festival 2017 began on Saturday and continued on Sunday with lot of expectations. Hundreds of people, families and children came and watched kites eagerly on both the days. To match their expectations were wide variety of kites, mostly flown first time during this festival. Totally different kites were flown on both days.
Some of these are biggest kites in the world. They are Ring Kite and Whale Kite. According to Pavan Solanki from Royal Kite Flying Club, Ahmedabad and an expert kite flying, the ‘Ring Kite” was the biggest. That was followed by ‘Whale Kite” by the France team.
Both these kites are some of the biggest kites in the world. The Whale Kite is 55 meters long. A giant crocodile kite, dragon, horse, snake, tortoise, football kites were displayed on Sunday additionally to those kites which were displayed on Saturday. On the weekend, many varieties of kites were displayed by the participants.
The four-member France team comprising Sylvain Francois Grez, Blandine Jessica Cambon Grez,; Nicolas Pierre Grez and Aline Lucette Huguette Gabillard worked hard in flying the Whale kite. It was an eye catcher to many. Many cameras clicked the monster whale kite, which was visible when flown from a kilometre distance. Nearly 50 different models of the kites of varied sizes and shapes were flown in the sprawling 100 acre campus of Aga Khan Academy. A kite enthusiast displayed Indoor kite, which could fly without breeze. The sky was filled with many Parafoil kites. Parafoils are characterized by an upper and lower surface, divided into cells by vertical ribs.