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The desire to see beyond is an unmistakable human calling. The skies may have no boundaries, but we still try to push our borders looking for new experience & adventure. Flying new sites and tasting new conditions keep the freshness and the excitement alive and results in amazing experiences. Given below are sketches of some of Nirvana’s memorable paragliding holidays.


Parapente on the Atlantic Coast

Parapente on the Atlantic Coast
Dune de Pyla - France (7th to 11th June)

The Dune is a Mecca for paragliding pilots from across the world. Which of us have not seen the most amazing fun flying videos of graceful ridge dancing, daring low flying and deadly death spirals done here. Paraglider pilots dream about flying here at least once in their lives. With Francois and Gwen’s wedding taking place further up the coast no way were we going to miss this fantastic opportunity.

The Great Dune of Pyla is the highest dune in Europe. 7km long, 107 meters high it rises nearly 1000' above the sea, offering extremely reliable conditions and an excellent learning environment, for all standards of pilot, The ocean providing laminar smooth air, and the Dune, a soft forgiving hill to soak up any mistakes!

The flying here is everything we imagined and more and Sanjay Astrid and Sunith Rao all had an idyllic time at this amazing place.

Read about it in the flynirvana blog



Flying at Billing, Himachal Pradesh -Gokul heads for the house thermal

Free flying in the South of France
Bir Moustiers Ste Marie France (24th to 28th June)

Good Karma brought us to magical Moustiers St Marie, a beautiful small village nestled between calciferous cliffs in the Haute Alps region of the South of France. We landed up here because it is Philippe Libre’s playground. A fantastic place for paragliding, rock climbing and all kinds of adventure sport. We heard of this place from Philippe and François who have been coming to Nirvana Adventures and Native Place for the past few years but we never imagined it would be this way.

It turned out to be a dark horse. It simply knocked us down with its true to style architecture, poetic beauty and wonderful people. The flying here is simply fantastic. Thermodynamic conditions and takeoffs at different altitudes make it pretty consistent too. We had some amazing flights over the spectacular countryside of legendary Provence, did some radical rock climbing and retreated each night to Philippe and Karen’s captivating home, a medieval farmhouse in a clearing among the mountains.

An unmatched experience.

Read about it in the flynirvana blog



Flying at Billing, Himachal Pradesh -Gokul heads for the house thermal

Himalayan flying holiday
Bir Billing, Himachal Pradesh, India – October 2007

A bunch of Nirvana Pilots traveled up to Bir Billing , looking forward to the awesome experience of flying in the Himalayas.

The conditions here differ starkly from our home sites at Kamshet but pretty soon we were buzzing high up in the Himalayan skies along with the awe inspiring Himalayan Griffon vultures, other birds of prey and paragliders from all over the world.

On the day we arrived we looked up at the flying site and the lofty peaks of the Dhauladar range in awe. By the end of the trip we bid a fond farewell to what we now considered to be ‘friendly mountains’



Malvan kiting trip; ground handling on the beach

Kiting on the coast
Malvan, Maharashtra, India - March 2007

A family holiday turned out to be a fun intense Kiting on the Beach extravaganza for the Rao family. Sanjay Astrid & Sunith’s holiday away from it all turned out to be an exploration of sorts and is now slated to become a yearly Nirvana Kiting Trip.

Check out the pictures – they say it all



Free Flying in God's Own Country
Vagamon, Kerala, India - April 2006

Gods own country, a small hill station with rolling hills, and a virgin site with a ten km long ridge, a grassy take off at 1100 meters and landing, a two acre field at 100 meters seemed to have a lot of promise. This trip was a Nirvana family trip. Gokul, Vidya & Veda, Chintu & Shwetambara, Pendurkar, Piku, Hiren Sachin, Dilip and Pendu, met up with Hari as well as Meidi & Caroline who had visited us at Kamshet the previous Christmas.

The entire team was very excited about flying this incredible site and exploring its flying possibilities. This was the first fly at Vagamon open to all pilots. Veda the youngest member of the Nirvana team was their mascot. It was Chintu’s first free flying experience away from Kamshet on his new Sport 3.

The gang had a super time as usual and Gokul being a knowing the local lingo organized for a variety of Kerala delicacies for the group to sample each evening. Morning flights were the norm as the mist hung around takeoff in the evenings. On the last day everyone landed at the bottom where cultural evening was organized.

Chekout Chintu's article
Check out Dilip’s write up on Vagamon flying.





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