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Sunith Rao makes his mark in Paragliding

Sunith Rao makes his mark in Paragliding

In the month of July 2018, 21-year-old Sunith Rao embarked on a 2 month long flying trip to Italy, Spain & Macedonia his father’s blessings and mine. In the Gin Wide Open, he came away with the first place in the leisure class making the Fly Nirvana family proud and his hosts Nicky Moss and Geordie Pensalo of FlyAger very happy. 

Sunith had a great start in the comp as he finished with a joint first with Gin team pilots Richard Bungay and Yuki Sato on the practice task , but …..

Paragliding training with Nirvana Adventures – Shinde Hill

Paragliding training with Nirvana Adventures – Shinde Hill

Today we celebrate the Shinde hill , the opportunity to be awake to greet the new day, awesome sunrises, cool serene early mornings, breakfast at the site, shuffling up the hillside, easy gliding downhill and lots of fun excitement

Paragliding Notam – Kamshet – Valid Till June 2015

Paragliding Notam – Kamshet – Valid Till June 2015

Early morning flight at Tower Hill , Kamshet (Picture Courtesy Richard Guest) The Nirvana Team is happy to share that  NOTAM's  are in place for the current flying season till June 7th, 2015 . Our sincere  thanks to  the  District Administration, Security Services , ATC Pune, ATC Mumbai & AFMLU Mumbai  for their continued support and co-operation. [...]
Nirvana Adventures procures benches for the school children at Kamshet

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 [...]
Paragliding in December

Paragliding in December

Why December you may ask: it is the holiday season, it is too cold to fly in Europe and here at Kamshet we have consistent sunshine, great flying weather and the vibrant yet serene native place guesthouse with its great food, atmosphere and friends to go home with at the end of the day.

Paragliding at Tower Hill  – Amazing Conditions :-)

Paragliding at Tower Hill – Amazing Conditions :-)

We got to Kamshet on Friday evening in time to meet Marco Contecelli an old friend who had come back to fly and meet up with us after 6 years of being away in Geneva and Rome. It was wonderful to see him and we reminisced about the early days and caught up on the [...]
Paragliding at Bir Billing – 4

Paragliding at Bir Billing – 4

Today’s hour long flight was a triumph. Thermalling can grow on you- it takes a fine awareness that is challenging, absorbing and exciting.  My variometer was acting up and remained silent for most of the flight but there was no stopping me. I turned and turned and milked the tiniest updraft. My instructor's occasional reassuring [...]
Paragliding at Bir-Billing – 2

Paragliding at Bir-Billing – 2

Woke up early and was pleasantly surprised to see what seemed to be a party of pied rather large paradise flycatcher like birds gliding excitedly from one tree to another. Still haven’t identified them but it sure was an interesting opera while it lasted. After breakfast we drove up to Billing, the flying site located [...]
Paragliding at Bir Billing  – 1

Paragliding at Bir Billing – 1

Sunil, Me and Gokul flew out of Mumbai in the wee hours of the morning. We are on our way to Bir Billing for a paragliding holiday.  After an uneventful but pleasant journey, we alight at Kangra airport and lug our oversized glider bags into a vehicle that will drive us up to the village [...]