Kiting
The Fuerteventura International Kite Festival has been taking place since 1987 when someone had the idea that kite flying would make a better spectacle if it were staged on an island in the path of the trade winds.
The International Kite Festival is held over three days in November in Corralejo on the Playa del Burro, Glass beach sand dunes south of Corralejo. An ever growing number of kiters come together from all over the world with the majority of European kiters coming from Britain, Germany and the other Canary islands.
There are kiting events many weeks in those countries, but the attraction of Fuerteventura is the kites making a picturesque and vivid display against the clear blues skies.
The event is usually held at the weekend closes to November 8. It is spread out over three days and attracts crowds who come to watch about 250 kites on display in the skies. Tradesmen also flock to the festival and you can pick up the very latest additions to soup up your kite.
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If you are looking to start kiting from anew, you could pay anything from £10 to £3,500 for a kite although many of the participants in the kite festival pride themselves on having made their own kites.
The event usually starts on a Friday when
commemorative tee shirts are given away and there is a free fly on the beach
when anyone can have a go.
The following morning the experts show off their skills until dusk and there
is a night display. There are kite flying competitions including freestyle
and technical freestyle, stint kites, fighter kites and kite shows to music.
On the Sunday the theme is family day when around 150 kites are given out to children and there is a display of little parachuting Teddy bears who drop sweets from the skies as well as battling kites which fight it out until one drops from the skies.
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