Basant - Kite Flying Festival (March) Lahore Punjab Pakistan:

Basant - Kite Flying Festival in Pakistan!

With the arrival of spring in March, the skies of Lahore are splendid with all kinds and sizes of kites. The Lahorites participate in kite-flying competitions to sign the spring. Basant is not only a kite flying occasion but a cultural festival of traditional food, dresses, dances, and music. These are also celebrated by the local people in Lahore. At the event, the morning begins with preparations for kite flying. There are the highest buildings in old Lahore. People like to fly kites in high places. Because the air blows excellent there. To hear songs people take a large tape recorder along with them. 

Basant kite flying festival---image by Pakistan tourism 

Activities on the Event:

• Guests will be greeted at the event in a traditional manner.
• Free dinner - Punjabi Food Festival. A trip to the walled city to view night kite-flying and enlighten colorful, historical monuments and balconies.
• Breakfast with traditional Punjabi food.
• Kite flying contest.
• Free traditional lunch arrangements in the Lawns.
• Presentation by prominent folk singers.
• Dancing horses and traditional dances.
• Stalls of kites, bangles, flowers, handicrafts, etc.
• Tonga ride. (Light two-wheel vehicle).
• Delight in and enjoy dinner in the Food Street - Food Festival of Punjab.
• Lahore by night - tour on Bugees. (Light horse-drawn vehicle for one-two person).

Precautions:

Some people behave with carelessness on this occasion. It means that individuals are using very unsafe iron wire. The throats of persons are cut with the iron wires on the roads as well as in the streets. Many precious lives of people have been waste because of this carelessness. We should celebrate the festival as a festival. The government should take notice of this carelessness.