Tourism of Gujarat, offers travel related information concerning
Kite festival which is held on the auspicious day of Makar
Sankranti, which is celebrated all across the length and breadth
of the country with varying intensity. Makar Sankranti is
well known but the exciting and thrilling adjunct to the festive
day, that is, Kite flying is popular in only some of the regions
of the country with Gujarat, leading the way in terms of the
people's participation and the fervor of the celebrating folks
and the intensity they display in their annual merriment.
Kite Flying has always been the favorite pastime of the localites
of Gujarat with Ahmedabad and some of the smaller towns too
being the practioners of the regaling and thrilling Kite Flying
Festival, being celebrated in Gujarat, India. Uttarayan, marks
the day when monster winter starts declining and days begin
to become longer and the heat of the festival can be felt.
Ahmedabad, situated in Gujarat, India, is known as the kite
flying capital of Gujarat, India, with an attendant Patang
bazaar, which remains open through the 24 hours personifying
the popularity of the kite flying festival, to the brink of
a frenzied preoccupation. People in Gujarat make their own
kites with locally available paper and sticks along with the
making of the kite thread being done with glass powder and
a quaint rice paste.
A visit to Tourism of Gujarat, offers travel tour booking
and travel packages to the Kite Festival of Gujarat, situated
in India. For more information or to book a tour please enter
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