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Paragliding Tour India |
Dare to fly high and touch the skies! Then how about getting involved in some air sports and make sky as your playground. Paragliding is a blend of skydiving and hang gliding and also the best way to conquer your fear of heights.
Unless the next step in evolution allows humanity to soar across the sky, everyone may just have to make do with paragliding, also known as parapenting.
Figuring in many India Adventure Tour Packages, paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport.
It involves free flight, in that it is closely related to hang-gliding, but quite different from parasailing.
The medium for this sport is a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft called a paraglider. The pilot is attached to the fabric wing with a harness.
The fascinating sport of Paragliding, is one of the most popular aero sports all over the world. A large number of people across the world enjoy this sport, as it is convenient and safe medium of soaring high in the air. Paragliding is the latest aero sport, whose origin goes back to1940s, but it expended rapidly after 1980s. The adventure sport is a blend of skydiving and hand gliding, but a para-glider is different from a hand-glider or a parachute. A para-glider is much lighter, easy to open and it take a short time to glide, as there is no any need to jump from a helicopter or plane. Paragliding is somewhat similar to Para Sailing, the only difference is that Para Sailing is done on the beach while the launch sides for Para Gliding are gentle hill sides. One needs some basic training and strong determination to successfully glide high in the air.
The Himalayan mountain ranges in India are world famous as they offer enough Para gliding opportunities. The lofty peaks of these mountains, sprawling from north to east are considered amongst the best gliding sites of the world. Some of the famous Para gliding sites in India include :
1. Paragliding in Himachal Pradesh
2. Para Gliding in Uttaranchal
3. Paragliding in Rajasthan
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