Kite Festival in Sanur Village Festival

In July-August is the season of kites in Bali, where the wind blows fast enough and stable. So that all children, teenagers up to adults to use it to distribute a hobby, which is a kite.

Sanur Village Festival to be one event that is used for hobby kite. In every opportunity, Sanur Village Festival always held a kite contest, traditional and international. Which aims to introduce the uniqueness of Balinese traditional kite into the middle of the tourists.

There are several types of traditional Balinese kites such as:

Pecukan, shaped like a leaf sheath.


Ben-ben or be- bean, resembling the shape of fish.




Janggan or Janggar, resembling of a dragon.




Creation, an adaptation of various shapes of animals, objects, figures and other idol that will transform into a kite.

This event is enough to open the eyes of foreign tourists that Bali was also unique in the art of kite. And they was surprised to see the size of our kites. "Usually in our country, one person flying the kite 50-10, but in Bali first kite was flown by at least 10 people", said one tourist. In addition to art and hobby container, a giant kite is also a means of uniting and grow hand in hand as well as mutual cooperation.