3rd Goa Kite festival to be held from 17 January 2017

Goa will hold the 3rd Kite festival in Miramar beach from January 17 to 18. The festival is set to paint the skies with vibrant hues as kites of various shapes and sizes take to the skies over the beach. It will have participants from 12 countries apart from India.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 12 January 2017.

Goa is keen to showcase its positives to international fliers and will play the perfect host so that the participants come back for another successful edition next year.
The highlight of this year will be stunt kites. There will also be night kite flyers who will begin their flights from 6pm onwards. And, in order to encourage little ones in the practice of kite-flying, there will be nearly 2,000 kites distributed for free among school children who attend the festival.
A total of 21 Indian teams and 21 international kite-flyers from Canada, Estonia, Germany, Malaysia, UK, Russia, Brazil, Australia, France, Italy, Netherlands and South Africa will participate.


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