Kite flying festival in Vietnam

QUANG NAM Vietnam’s Quang Nam province will host the International Kite Festival in Tam Thanh Commune 5 to 9 June.

Local media reported more than a 100 craftsmen from Canada, the United States, Germany, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, China and Vietnam will take part in the event.

The Tam Thanh People’s Committee vice chairman, Le Ngoc Ty, was quoted saying the craftsmen will bring their handmade kites and demonstrate the traditional craft on beaches of Quang Nam province.

The craftsmen will demonstrate kite-making skills, kite decoration and kite flying.

Several folk games, sports events and beach games will also be held on the beach during the festival and continued throughout the summer break.

The kite festival is part of a series of activities under the auspices of the 2017 Quang Nam Heritage Festival that is being held in many cities and districts of the province throughout June, the vice chairman noted.

Tam Thanh Commune, 10 km east of Tam Ky City, is known as the first locale in Vietnam to have colourful murals painted on its moss-covered walls by artists from several foreign countries. The murals attract 500 tourists each day to the commune.

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