

Of course, it is strongly recommended to visit Weifang during Weifang International Kite Festival. We suggest you focus on the best highlights of Weifang, including Kite Museum, Yangjiabu Folk Culture Village and Shihu Garden. Generally, a classic Weifang tour takes at least 2 days.
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Our professional local guide and driver will escort you from your hotel, train station, airport to all attractions with comfortable private licensed car and let you catch the highlights of every site and city, so you can get really relaxed on the way and focus on what you are interested in. We provide private transfer service for our customers who book a Weifang tour with us. If you want to save all the transfer troubles, you can travel with us China Discovery. Note: To get to Weifang, you can take a high speed train from Beijing (2.5~3.5h), Qingdao (1h), Jinan (45min~1.5h), Taian (2h), Qufu (2.5h), Yantai (1.5~2h), Weihai (2~2.5h), etc. ✔ 3 Days Weifang Kite Culture & Festival Tourįrom Weifang downtown (Weifang World Kite Museum): about 53 km, 1.5 hours by car, 2.5 hours by busįrom Weifang Railway Station: about 55 km, 1.5 hours by car, 2.5 hours by busįrom Weifang North Railway Station: about 42 km, 50 minutes by car, nearly 2 hours by busįrom Weifang Airport: about 62 km, 1.5 hours by car, 3 hours by bus. Seeing the kites, it is like you have become a child again who is running freely in the fields to fly your beloved kite up high. Here you can see the most exquisite kites in China and other countries. They respectively introduce the history, application, evolution and development of kites, the schools and classification of kites, foreign kite exhibitions, and international kite fairs. The kite museum collects and displays kite treasures and cultural relics in eight exhibition halls. It is a landmark building of "kite capital of the world". It adopts the characteristics of centipede kite, whose roof is made of peacock blue glazed tiles and looks like a dragon flying in the sky. Weifang World Kite Museum (潍坊世界风筝博物馆) is the first large-scale kite museum in China. 66 Xingzheng Street, Kuiwen District, in Weifang downtown 潍坊市奎文区行政街66号, in Weifang downtown Opening Hours: Closed on Monday, 09:00-17:00 (Tuesday to Sunday) Ticket: Free Here you can not only make your own kite, but also experience the New Year picture painting, feeling the charm of this art that has been headed down for hundreds of years. Gradually, Yangjiabu kite has grown its own style with realistic colors and well composed groups.Īfter watching so many kites, do you want to make one on your own? If the answer is yes, Yangjiabu is the right place for you.

1368-1644), the ancestors have already got excellent kite making skills and they integrated kites with New Year pictures (a form of Chinese colored woodblock print, for decoration during the Chinese New Year). Yangjiabu is the birthplace of Weifang kites with a long history. Location: Yangjiabu, Hanting District, Weifang City 山东省潍坊市寒亭区杨家埠, about 16 km, 50 minutes’ drive from Weifang downtown Opening Hours: All day Ticket: CNY 66 (including kite making and New Year picture painting) Make a Kite on Your Own in Yangjiabu Folk Culture Village When you get here, you will know it is true. People say there is nothing you can not fly to the sky in Weifang. There are animals like centipede, fish, dragon, dolphin, bear, octopus cartoon figures like flower fairy, Calabash Brothers, superman, characters in Pilgrimage to The West, and other shapes like spaceship, satellite and Noah's Ark. Apart from the traditional patterns such as swallow, butterfly, and triangle, you will be amazed by the creativity showed in these kites. Representative teams from home and abroad gather here to fly their well-designed kites to the sky. It has attracted over 100 thousand audience.

With a growing scale, now there are over 60 countries and regions attending the festival. On the opening day of Weifang International Kite Festival, you will see the most kites in different styles. Ticket for opening ceremony: vary from year to year, usually CNY 100-300 Immerse in the World of Kite on Opening Ceremony Gradually, the kite becomes the symbol of Weifang and the festival is one of the most important events in Weifang. Like many Chinese folk art forms, Weifang kites are the entertainment products that embody people's ideals and aspirations.
