Best Paragliding Destinations Around the World
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Paragliding Destinations Around the World I did my first tandem paraglide in Bir Billing, Himachal Pradesh, in 2017. The pilot - a wiry, calm Tibetan named Pema - strapped me into the harness, told me to run when he said run, and twelve seconds later we were 1,000 feet above the Dhauladhar foothills with my feet dangling above the deodars I'd been hiking among that morning. The sensation isn't what I expected. It isn't terror or even adrenaline particularly. It's a kind of quiet - the absence of engine, the way the wing creates more silence than wind, the slow rotation that lets you see everything below at a pace your brain can actually process. That trip turned into a small obsession. I've now flown tandem in seven countries and watched solo pilots in many more. Paragliding gives you the elevation of helicopters with the silence and slowness that helicopters can't deliver. The destinations on this l...