September 5, 2011 paragliding club kamshet | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures Astrid Rao

Monsoon fun and festivities at Nirvana Adventures

The paragliding season will only reopen in October but each weekend as we drive by on the road from Kamshet to Native place my eyes turn to the Shelar hills on the right to get a glimpse of what is going on there.

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.

January 24, 2011 kamshet | learn paragliding | paragliding club | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures Astrid Rao

Let’s be grateful for our flying sites

I would consider it a good occasion for us pilots flying at Kamshet to stop a moment to reflect on and be grateful for the rapport and respect we share with the local farmers and land owners at Kamshet. our access to the sites here depend on the good will of the local people and we need to tread gently and give back at least a little if not as much as we receive.

December 22, 2010 learn paragliding | paragliding blog | paragliding club | paragliding in india with nirvana adventures Astrid Rao

Of Women in Paragliding and Nirvana Kids

The weekend was surely women’s pg weekend . Besides Jan and Vrinda we had 6 new female students join the Elementary Pilot course. Do we see a new and welcome trend beginning here 🙂

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 [...]

September 20, 2010 Astrid Rao

Farewell Stephan, Irene and Anna

Swiss nationals Stephan, Irene and Anna have been frequent visitors to Native Place the last 5 years that they have been living in Pune. Their earlier visits were to Native Place in the monsoon season but in 2007 Stephan signed up for a paragliding course with us and after that he became a regular weekend [...]

May 20, 2010 Astrid Rao

The Wedding Season at Shelar

Hi All,We are now in May, the last month of the flying season at Kamshet . Come June, the monsoon arrives and our landing fields turn into verdant waterlogged rice paddy fields.  Luckily for me  I am I parked at Native Place for the summer holidays  and can make the most of the flying this [...]

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 [...]

April 8, 2010 Astrid Rao

Crosswind Easter weekend

Crosswind dominated the long Easter weekend.  The north wind component continued from the last weekend with a little more strength and stubbornness – consequently very little flying happened. Some of us managed to catch a window of opportunity and get airborne for a significant amount of time but one could actually see the cycles in [...]