Bali Kite Festival

The event is a seasonal religious festival intended to send a thanking message to the Hindu gods to create abundant crops and harvests.

The Janggan form has a broad flowing cloth tail that can reach more than 100 metres in length.

Each type of traditional kite has its own competition, with heats of 10 teams vying for the best launch and longest flight.

In the dry season of June through August, the winds blow continually from east to west in most of Indonesia.

Balinese children and adults fly kites in the vacant rice paddies during this period.