Pokhara is a piece of heaven in Earth with all the beautiful green hills, mountains, Lakes, rivers, water falls.All these natural beauty makes it one of the best paragliding destination. Here takeoff is done from Sarangkot, a hill at an elevation of 1425m high, which is about half an hour drive from Pokhara and landing is done at the bank of Fewa Lake.
I had heard from few of my friends that paragliding is not that exciting and it gets a bit monotonous and boring after the excitement of few minutes of flying in the sky. I was at Pokhara for a training and after finishing my training, few of my friends made a plan for paragliding. Without much excitement, I joined the group and went for it with my group of friends.
We booked the ticket and We were taken to the top of Sarangkot in a pickup van. There at the top of the hill we could see a lots of pilots waiting to fly. I got a chance to fly with a Nepali Pilot 'Sagar' I still remember his name.
I had heard from few of my friends that paragliding is not that exciting and it gets a bit monotonous and boring after the excitement of few minutes of flying in the sky. I was at Pokhara for a training and after finishing my training, few of my friends made a plan for paragliding. Without much excitement, I joined the group and went for it with my group of friends.
We booked the ticket and We were taken to the top of Sarangkot in a pickup van. There at the top of the hill we could see a lots of pilots waiting to fly. I got a chance to fly with a Nepali Pilot 'Sagar' I still remember his name.
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| Last Selfie with THE PILOT |
I was expecting that there will be some kind of training or guidance before we start to fly about how to fly and what to do but as soon as we reached there, one of the pilot asked me to put on the gear and asked me to run. I was shocked and scared and asked him to guide me before we fly. But all he said was run. The thrill of not knowing whats next was both scary and exciting. Within no time I was in the sky flying freely like a bird. It was such an amazing feeling gliding in the air with all the amazing views around, blue sky above, green hills all around and a green clean lake below.
After few minutes of flying and enjoying the view, the pilot asked me if I wanted to do stunts. I didn't know that we could also do that. Even thought I didn't know what he was talking about. Without thinking anything I said 'yes'. We started to fly high and low. He picked some leaves from a tree and gave it to me. It was an amazing experience. He then started to turn the parachute round and spiral and started to do different types of stunts. That was the experience that cant be explained in words. The adrenaline rush, the excitement, that amazing feeling of being free in the sky.
Out of the many adventurous things I have tried, Paragliding was the best. You have to do it yourself once to know how amazing the experience is.
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| Flying High |
After few minutes of flying and enjoying the view, the pilot asked me if I wanted to do stunts. I didn't know that we could also do that. Even thought I didn't know what he was talking about. Without thinking anything I said 'yes'. We started to fly high and low. He picked some leaves from a tree and gave it to me. It was an amazing experience. He then started to turn the parachute round and spiral and started to do different types of stunts. That was the experience that cant be explained in words. The adrenaline rush, the excitement, that amazing feeling of being free in the sky.
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I can fly
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ReplyDeleteI also want to try once . hope i could get a chance soon..
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