Gujarat Tourism - Beach kite festival
Gujarat is blessed with the beautiful coastal area where most of the beaches are isolated or hidden due to non-tourist activities. To promote these beautiful beaches and tourist activities, Gujarat tourism had announced Beach festival in Gujarat on 28th and 29th of October 2017.
Team FLY360 was welcome to fly kites at Beach festival by the mayor of Dwarka and tourism head. Our team got this great chance to visit heritage city of Dwarka and fly creative kites on the shorelines of this heavenly city. We had a stay for 3 days amid the event, which included sightseeing for a day around the city of Dwarka going to Hindu temples and exploring the heritage city.
Day 1 - Dwarka
Next day i.e. on 28th we began flying our personalized kites at the scene of beach festival in Dwarka from 4:30 pm. We started the show with our eye candy “Bird Train kite” (100 kites in a line), trailed by our other mammoth inflatables. An enormous group was available to witness our gigantic kites and appreciate the fest by endeavoring to pick up this unique experience of kite flying.
This was just not it .we likewise caught the bizarre snapshots of the festival through our Aerial Photography by attaching a camera to one of our most stable kite string. By this camera, we endeavored to capture bird’s eye view of the festival. We have recorded the aggregate film of no less than 2 hours of the festival from our aerial camera. Mayor of Dwarka who was likewise present at the festival delighted in flying our unique designer kites along with the crowd.
As the sun went down we also took down our kites and unfolded our Led Night flying kites to make the evening glaze with our uniquely designed kites for night flying. This was a unique surprise for audiences as they were amazed to see such unique kites fly in the dark sky as well. People of all ages enjoyed the spectacular kite show put up by our team throughout the event. From kids to elders, we made sure that each time they looked up in the sky they were treated with a mesmerizing experience.
Day 2 - Kite flying at Madhavpur
Next day we exited for Madhavpur, another normally wonderful city with the spotless and lovely beach. We came to there at 4 pm to the venue. People from the whole way across the city had begun to come in, we soon began off by setting free our tremendous and alluring specially custom made kites in the sky.
The crowd waited to see our unique kite flying as the word of mouth regarding our spectacular show on the previous day had spread like a wildfire in the forest. Indeed, even the media had spread a decent word about the kite flying which the mayor and all the crowd present had enjoyed a lot. There were small games conducted at the festival by the organizers where we had our few team members participating actively.
That was an end of the beach festival, this beach festival created some great moments and everlasting memories in our hearts!













I attended this inaugural Dwarka beach kite festival and it was truly historic! The sacred setting of Dwarka with its ancient temples against the backdrop of kites over the Arabian Sea created an atmosphere of spiritual beauty that was deeply moving. Fly360 showed tremendous sensitivity in organising a joyful event that respected the sacred nature of the location. Please make this an annual tradition!
Dwarka is one of the holiest cities in Hinduism and the addition of a kite festival transforms it into a multi-dimensional pilgrimage-meets-cultural experience. Pilgrims and tourists can now combine spiritual darshan with joyful kite flying — the two are not contradictory, as kites have always had spiritual significance in Indian culture. Fly360 understood this nuance beautifully.
The photographs from this Dwarka beach kite festival are absolutely breathtaking — the LED night kites over the dark Arabian Sea are like something from a dream. The contrast of ancient spiritual architecture and modern kite art is a powerful visual statement about how India bridges its heritage and modernity. I am planning a Saurashtra road trip and Dwarka during kite season is now on the itinerary!
Denmark has beautiful coastal landscapes perfect for kite flying but nothing with the cultural depth of Dwarka. Reading this article makes the prospect of a beach kite festival in India enormously appealing for a Nordic traveller. The combination of sacred history, stunning coastline, and spectacular kite displays is a tourism product that sells itself. India should market this internationally more aggressively!
Seven years on and the Dwarka Beach Kite Festival has become a landmark on Gujarat’s cultural events calendar! What Fly360 started in 2017 has blossomed into something wonderful for the region. The pilgrimage city now welcomes kite enthusiasts alongside devotees and the two communities enrich each other. This article documents the beginning of something special. Historical in every sense!