ARTICLE-FANØ KITE FESTIVAL
Every year in June there is a big kite festival on the island of Fanø at the west coast of Denmark. The conditions here are ideal with a lot of stable wind coming in from the North Sea.
Posted 02. July 2017
To get to Fanø you have to take the ferry from Esbjerg. Cars are allowed to drive on the hard beach, so a kite flyer can bring all his stuff . We brought our bikes to be more flexible and save money for the ferry. An impressive view opened up when we entered the beach. The sky was filled with kites. The organizers claim that there are around 10.000 kites in the air. I did not count them.
I like it when people are nerdy and go all in whatever hobby they have. In the wintertime these people build new kites, and in the summertime, they fly them. People from all over the world come to take part in the festival – as far away as from Japan, but the majority come from Germany and Denmark.