Remal International Festival offers unprecedented excitement for visitors

Remal International Festival, the world’s largest sand sculpting and lightshow festival taking place in Kuwait, expects another massive turnout of visitors in its second week as it introduces additional activities for the period of February 10th-15th, in cooperation with Platinum Sponsor Wataniya Telecom.

A higher than expected number of visitors attended Remal International Festival in its first week thanks to the ongoing involvement of international entertainment companies, utilizing hightech special visual & sound effects accompanied by a series of 24 daily live shows retelling the classic tales of “1001 Arabian Nights”.

Additionally, the sand sculpting festival offers visitors an awe-inspiring close-up view of some of the largest and most sophisticated sand sculptures in the world. According to Remal International Festival’s management, 73 of the world’s best sand artists from over 20 countries joined hands to create the sculptures under the “1001 Arabian Nights” theme using the latest techniques. The festival also represents first time anywhere in which visitors may walk onto and through a sand sculpture. Furthermore, Remal International Festival covers an area of 30,000 square meters and was built with 35,000 tons of sand, constituting the largest on the planet.

Remal International Festival is a unique celebration of entertainment and the arts. The first of its kind in the GCC, Remal International Festival aims to restore Kuwait’s image as a leading regional tourist destination. The festival is a unique blend between sand sculpture and literary storytelling where scenes from tales such as “Sinbad’s Voyage” and “Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp”are creatively depicted in over 100 sculptures. For the first time, a sand sculpture event unifies under a single theme to dazzle audiences of all ages with outstanding creativity and world-class artistic performances.

The festival’s organizers seek to make Remal International Festival an annual event that consistently attracts the world’s most talented sand sculptors and employs their talents to highlight the wealth of humanity’s literary heritage throughout the world.

Remal International Festival is open through April 26, 2014 at the Kuwait International Fairgrounds.