In India Kite Festival is held

In India International Kite Festival is held annually on the 14-th of January. The place of arrangement is Ahmedabad city, the largest town of Gujarat state.

The festival marks the day of Makar Sankranti, also called Uttarayan – that is the festival praising the sun entering Northern hemisphere and change of seasons; consequently, the end of winter and beginning of spring.

These days in Ahmedabad there are experts and amateurs, producers of kites and specialists not only from India, but almost from all over the world.

Design concept, color, and sizes of items impress imagination with their variety. Among the participants, you may meet youth as well as hoar-headed aged people.

At the festival, there is tradition to arrive with families and companies of friends. Numerous spectators observe show not only from specially equipped squares located on the ground but from the roofs of houses or nearest buildings. Kites sailing through the sky remind ingenious birds tending to the endless heaven.

However, the truly magnificent highlight of the event is the night flights of kites. They are enlightened inside; they are usually tied with the common fibre, and situated in one range.

By the way, visiting the museum of kites in Ahmedabad, you may find out many interesting things from the history of this art. For example, in 1870 Australian inventor Lawrence Hargrave developed the construction of a boxlike kite, which was light-load and solid, distinguishing by good persistence and huge carrying capacity. It is considered that this structural system became a prototype for creation of the first biplanes in the beginning of 20-th century.