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Tandem Paragliding with Nirvana Adventures

Tandem Paragliding with Nirvana Adventures

    I did a tandem flight with Nirvana Pilot Ganesh Shinde on the weekend. I was flying tandem after 10 long years. Felt strange not to have the controls in my hands. Was an interesting flight – very few people in the air as the wind speeds had reduced considerably and pilots were finding [...]
Celebrating Holi & Paragliding with Nirvana Adventures

Celebrating Holi & Paragliding with Nirvana Adventures

Holi at Native Place and Nirvana Adventures was a treat – lots of colour , excitement, running chasing, splashing and squealing and hosing down . The weather was another story all together. The winds turned east n the morning and we scrambled back to Shinde tekdi with the Elementary Pilot Paragliding students where things went on quite well.

Spring Fest & Paragliding fun at Nirvana Adventures, Kamshet

Spring Fest & Paragliding fun at Nirvana Adventures, Kamshet

Bastien & Emil - antics at the site HI all, There was lots of excitement going around this weekend at Native Place as pilots gathered to make the most of the flying and celebrate Holi, the festival of colour which marks the seasonal change from winter to spring The earlier week Dwane had flown 35 [...]
Paragliding at Tower Hill this October (2014)

Paragliding at Tower Hill this October (2014)

Hi All, Being the first month of paragliding after a long monsoon season (June to October ) the winds in October take a while to settle in before the flying gets to its optimum and Tower Hill shows her true flying colors. But this season the wind gods decided to be  more benevolent and as [...]
Cheers and Happy Landings

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) [...]
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 [...]