Ancient Kite

Nantong is one of the early cities to use kites, and they developed a "whistle". The Nantong whistling Kites are quite famous in China. The large whistles are quite heavy, so the kites would have been hard to fly.

Nantong Vistit, Jiangsu, China.

June 27th 2008
Well, back from our ‘flying trip’ to Nantong, the city located on the northern banks of the Yangtze River, just north of Shanghai. Nantong is only a quick 2 1/2 hour train ride (which took us 3 1/2) south from Yancheng. It was a pleasant change to get some ‘cleaner’ air, from all the farm burning in Yancheng. We have been booking our accommodation from an internet site, which specialize ... read more

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