The International Sand Art Festival is being held at Chandrabhaga Beach, Konark, Odisha, and the government of Odisha took all initiatives to make it popular and attract tourists by placing the hoardings all over the State Capital. Odisha is a perfect place for Sand Art, as the International Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik who created history by winning Guinness World Record for Sand art belongs to this place. Apart from that, Odisha is a perfect place for tourism, being a peaceful state with lots of nice places to visit.
The weather here is really nice as its winter here and temperature is around 25 degree Celsius, So me and my friend @ranjangjang started our trip around 11.30 a.m. and reached Chandrabhaga Beach, Konark around 2 o' clock.
Upon getting there we saw, the sand arts were kind of in progress work, artists from various places from world was busy building their art.
On inquiring we came to know that the way the festival works is like everyday they would be given a theme, and they will have to build the sand art based on that and complete by 5 p.m. , after which they will be judged by a panel. And the theme for the day was Echo Tourism. So we decided to spend some time there and stay till the end, to see the finished arts. We spent some time in the Chandrabhaga Beach, which is a calm beach and a clash of its own.
A foreign tourist enjoying his time in the beach.
A selfie was certainly well deserved at this place :)
And then we went to a nearby hotel, had our lunch and came back around 4 o' clock, to have the glimpse of the marvelous sand arts. We were lucky to see Sudarsan and it was a privilege to have a selfie with him.
And as it was about to be evening, we decided to take some snaps of the sand arts, even though the artists were still not completed with them and was giving the final touch :
In the above art, you can see a foreigner taking snaps of Tribal People. It was around evening and most of the arts were about to be completed, as they had a timing to complete around 5 p.m. to get reviewed by the panel of judges. The Lights were coming in setting the perfect ambience. So here are some of the spectacular finished sand arts :
As you see in the above art, Nothing is impossible. If someone can write with legs, then its all about Determination and hard work.
And to finish, the last art gives us a nice message, we must respect our Eco System. Because its the very nature which makes our living on this earth. I hope you will enjoy this post.
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