Kite Festival at Katara

 parktrailer20 ,Amal22,yoursavuliya,amberslan12, Thanks everyone. 

lovely lovely pictures, waxing poetics here

oh this looks so beautiful! I like the squid one :)

nice kites smart shotes

I prefer to spend my WE a a calm quiet beach than going to this always crowded KATARA,...!!

thanks :) i hope i fint it this tym :)

amberslan,

Katara is located just after the Doha Exhibition Center.

Hidden behind those huge mounts of sand!

Turn left after the exhibition center. Take a Uturn at the first possible location.Then turn left again, and there you are, in Katara.

I've never been to Katara................where is it actually located?

can somebody please tell me?

Bthomas,

You are right. But , I believe, organizers cannot be blamed for missing-kid-issue. The parents are to be blamed! They were very much involved in the festivity, and they might have forgotten about their little ones! LOL.

The mood was good there. Everyone were in high spirits. But I agree, arrangements could have been better.

And I really agree with you about organizers taking those little (but big) things into consideration, like providing water for the kids.

And, talk about lighting! (I recently moved to Doha.) I cannot understand why the Town-planners in Doha have an aversion towards light! Be it the beautiful Corniche, or Waqif souq area, or be it some roads in Najma or Mansoura area. You will end up in darkness!!

Funny though.

at whyteknight

Yup, the DJ was on the mic all the time - we have a missing kid who is wearing a wonderful bright pink top, we have a kid who is wearing a fancy shirt...the only common thing was...in all scenarios the kids were scared...parents please approach the stage.

hey it got over even before i reached there onn 7th... bad ... me unlucky!!

Bthomas - Loads of kids went missing?

I hope everyone went home with his/her kid by the end of it all.

I knew whats gonna happen, becasue that place cannot hold such kind of open public events due to lack of space, narrow roads etc...

This is the reason we did not go there :-)

lol Khanan...

I thought u will take the Exit door ? :(

It was a nice idea, but poorly executed.

1. There was enough parking in Katara, but the entrance was bottlenecked.

2. Kites were good.

3. LED show was a flop. 3 kites with LED? Not much of a show there.

4. Lantern show was a flop as it never happened. I had confirmed that with the organizers that its gonna start at 8PM. It never happened! We waited for it for 2 hours! And almost missed Fast Five! (Thank you Mall for showing it at 11.15PM!)

5. Loads of kids went missing. There should have been more lights at the place.

6. Thirsty!!!! Where can we find water? Was there a stall for water? We ended up buying from the restaurant! (Costly!)

:(

Hope they get it right next time... :)

went and took a U-turn at the entrance, just looking at the chaos :(

after reading Bthomas comments, i thank God tat i missed it ! :(

Poorly executed? Expect amazing!

Hey look its Paul the octopus in Qatar :D

Very cool kites. Shame i missed it :( That is a very cool octupus...

Oh no, what a terrible miss? I wish I had a chance to go and see this. Thanks for the info Sathees,hope u had a chance to see it

Oops Scorpion,

You missed it.

The event was just on the 6th and 7th of May 2011.

When is the last day? I prefer to go and see with my kids.

Looks fun

oh.. woow.. thats cool kites.. missed the event b"cos of the hang over of Project Qatar Exhibition..

Sponge Bob kite is great !

Nice Shots and Kites !