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June 13, 2017 Astrid Rao

Nirvana Adventures End of Paragliding Season Party 2016/17

It’s been a tradition since 2005, as summer comes to an end and the monsoon season looms the Nirvana Adventures Paragliding community get’s together to unfurl our wings for the last flight of the season, give thanks.
Back at the takeoff – The winds were strong as is expected for this time of the year – Lots was going on – accuracy competitions, site cleanup, ground handling displays, aerial seed ball bombing, tandem paragliding rides.

Cheers and Happy Landings

The last week was definitely a good time to be at Native Place. Where else would you be able to say cheers in 3 different languages? Yamas in Greek, Skal in Swedish, and Sante in French (we’re yet to figure out the Hindi version for it). The Swedes and the French (from the Reunion Islands) [...]

Camilla on paragliding with Nirvana Adventures, Native Place, and making a difference

The friendships formed on the landing field led to them wanting to make a small difference. “We are all very happy to give something back.” she said. “Sanjay Rao took us to visit the local school

Nirvana Adventures procures benches for the school children at Kamshet

Hi All , Many of you may be aware of the Golden Glades School, the only secondary school in the villages around Kamshet catering to all the children who complete their primary education in their respective village schools.Nirvana Adventures has been associated with the Golden Glades school since the 2009 when we assisted Dutchmen Eddie [...]

June 22, 2012 end of paragliding season party Kamshet | paragliding blog | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures | paragliding school in india Astrid Rao

Nirvana Adventures End of Paragliding Season Party 2012

The Gonshubai Devi Shrine, Shelar site, Kamshet Hi All, We closed the flying season at Kamshet with our traditional end of season party on the 9/10th weekend of June. Saturday began with an early morning trip to the Shelar site to pay our respects to the Devi on the hills. We walked up to the [...]

August 19, 2011 CSR | école parapente | kamshet | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures Astrid Rao

Nirvana Adventures 15 August 2011 Independence day blog

How independent are we she asked if we are not allowed to express ourselves and share our concerns about the water of our own lakes being chanellised to industrial towns that have polluted their own water sources. She sure had a point there

June 15, 2011 CSR | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures | paragliding school Astrid Rao

Nirvana Adventures End of Paragliding Season May 2011

The entire day was a gift – we had touched the hearts of 26 children, made a trek to Gonshubai that left us dazed and now we were on our way back home to Native Place to enjoy a dazzling display of fireflies and the company of amazing friends.

September 20, 2010 Astrid Rao

Nirvana’s Tree Plantation Drive

On the occasion of Independence Day Nirvana Adventures donated a hundred saplings to the local village secondary school. We took part in a very moving independence day celebration that brought back memories of our school days. The tree plantation ceremony followed. The children had dug the pits themselves and they requested us to help them [...]

April 26, 2010 Astrid Rao

Keeping our flying sites clean

I mentioned in last weekends blog about flying back to the parking and enjoying the sunset. what i did not mention was that the parking was strewn with litter - wafer, chewing gum and chocolate wrappers, plastic water bottles Macdonalds too - horrifying sights. It was not just the parking there was litter all along [...]

February 25, 2010 Astrid Rao

Just Bin It – Keeping our sites clean

To drive up to the top of the mountain in the crisp cool hours of a winter morning, check the wind direction as you alight from the van at the parking, breathe in clean air, listen to the birds chirp and enjoy the sun on your skin – This is a classic early morning ‘Tower [...]

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