The World’s Largest Kite in Al-Farsi Kites Festival
Al-Farsi Kites Team is organizing a Kites festival in Sabhan from Friday to Sunday (15-17 Februady). During this festival the team will be flying the kite that has the Guinness world record as the largest kite ( which is in the shape of the Kuwaiti Flag ) .
More information can be found on The Team’s official website , The team’s Flickr Group and The festival’s Facebook event page
Some Information About The Kite
During an international kite festival Mr. Abdulrahman Shaikhan Al-Farsi ( founder of the team and owner of the kite) met Peter Lynn a kteimaker , engineer and inventor from New Zealand and bought some interesting custom made kites from him. After that the idea of breaking the world record came up to Mr. Abdulrahman Al-Farsi and he asked Peter Lynn to construct the kite in the shape of the Kuwaiti Flag. It took 750 hours to designing and constructing the 1019 m^2 sized Kite ..
Photos From the Flickr Group Photo Pool
MrMMM on February 16th 2008 in Kuwait
Maca responded on 15 Apr 2008 at 3:48 am #
Thats a really cool Kite
Bashar responded on 04 Jun 2008 at 9:04 am #
First time I see those wide range of pics, and YES. I regret not coming to the event. Turns out my kid loves those stuff.
Second, you’re tagged.