Kites are a big deal in Bali. During the windy season from June-August, kids all over the island are flying kites. If you're in the right areas, it's not uncommon to look up and see close to a hundred kites up in the sky. But it's not just for kids...
Adults also take kite making and kite flying seriously. There are huge festivals and contests that pit kites against each other from villages all over Bali.
Some of the kites can be over 45 feet long, with the tails measuring 100s of feet long. Although it's not fun to be stuck in the many traffic jams caused when they are carrying these big kites to the beach to fly them, it is pretty cool to see lots of the big ones up in the air at the same time.
With the proliferation of small GoPro-type cameras, more and more villages are recording the events of the day but also hooking up the cameras directly to their big kites as they fly. It's interesting to get the vantage point from up top. You can CLICK HERE for one (really long) video taken from a local village in Bali, it kind of shows the activities of the kite festival day.
The video on top is a trailer of a documentary that was done chronicling the history of the kites and the cultural/religious significance of the kite festivals.
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