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Sports Travel: Paragliding in Switzerland
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  • Written by globetrott on Nov 30, 2007
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    Switzerland is a great place to go Paragliding, even when you have never done it before. There are many young pilots waiting for "victims" for a tandem-flight, you may book such flights in advance or simply go to the top of a mountain like Schiltorn, Brienzer Rothorn and many others and search for a pilot there - when you are lucky and maybe also not in the high season you may decide on top of the mountain, if you dare to fly down with one of the pilots. The pilot on my pictures was waiting 2 hours in vain before he decided to fly down alone. In fact he was not only going downwards, BUT was able to find a perfect wind to take him UP-wards several hundred meters, before he sailed down to the valley...
    200 sfr / 140 Euros is the tandem-flight down from Rothorn
    from Schilthorn : 270,- sfr / from Muerren : 160,- sfr


    Equipment: The equipment is given by the pilot - they always have a large rucksack with all necessary equipments
    Some links :
    www.paragliding-interlaken.ch
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    www.swiss-paragliding.ch
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    www.paragliding365.com


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    Directions: The pilots are waiting about halfway between the restaurant and the peak of Rothorn - you may recognize them by their equipment !
    Website: http://www.paragliding365.com/index-p-flightarea_nearby_all_118.html
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