Last year one of my friend who was free in April after his financial year in office and wanted to do something adventurous... He work as Development Officer in Palampur which is very near to Billing (World famous place for Paragliding), but he chose to come to Solang to have a Paragliding experience near snow covered hills... Here are few photographs from that trip...
Here is first view of green Solang Valley after leaving our car in the parking on road-side... Marhi is another place near Manali to enjoy paragliding and considered as another good place to have different experience on top of snow covered hills...
Road from Manali to Solnag Valley is beautiful and having different views of River, Hills, Valley and snow covered hills... There is a military camp across Beas River which loooks amazing and almost everyone dream of a home at that location :-)
View from valley are amazing... We also trekked to a hill which is opposite to Solang Valley and we were literally mocing through clouds... It was amazing weather when we reached on the top... Clouds were moving very fast and we were also able to see other gliders near Marhi, which is on very high hills on the way to Rohtang Pass...
At Solang Valley, they offer para-glider ride from different places based on height and areal view to the valley... My friend tried the flight from highest point in Solang valley which can be reached after 45 minutes of trek to the hill top on left side of this valley... They asked for 2K and finally we paid 1300 for this ride... It was 15 minute ride in air and we realized that we should have negotiated more for this :-) Also this duration depends upon the air-flow, this is told by experts there ;-)
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