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What a tandem flight costs in Oludeniz against Interlaken. How long you are actually airborne. Which flights hand you the photos and which sell them to you in the landing field. Reviews of the flights you can book at the world’s busiest launch sites.
01The one everyone meansParagliding Oludeniz – Fethiye, TurkeyOff Babadag at 1,900 metres and twenty minutes of glide down onto the beach at Oludeniz. The flight people mean when they say Turkey.
02The Swiss oneTandem Paragliding Flight with PilotOff Beatenberg above Lake Thun with the Jungfrau wall across the valley. Short walk, big money, no regrets.
03The city oneTandem Paragliding AdventureOff Signal Hill, out over the Atlantic seaboard, landing beside the Sea Point promenade. Three quarters of an hour, door to door.
Where paragliding is cheap, where it is spectacular, and where it is both.
Six countries carry most of the world’s tandem flying. What a wing costs in each, what you look down on, and which launch site the money actually buys.
Turkey sells more tandem flights than anywhere, and Oludeniz is only half of it.
Three launch sites, three completely different mornings. What each costs per head, and how much of it you spend in the air rather than in a minibus.
Tandem is the default. The rest is what you bolt onto it.
Every flight here is flown by a licensed pilot with you strapped in front, so the real choices are the extras: a camera on a stick, a car up to the launch, an acro sequence over the bay.
- 1Tandem Paragliding Flight with Pilotfrom $233
- 2Tandem Paragliding Adventurefrom $109
- 3Tandem Paragliding Experience from Interlakenfrom $252
The paragliding flights more travellers book than any other.
Every flight we review →The launches that fill up first, and what earns each of them the slot.
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Paragliding Oludeniz – Fethiye, Turkey
Review of tandem paragliding from Mt. Babadag over Oludeniz, with practical details on price, safety, views, pickups, photos, and weather.
From · $165
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Tandem Paragliding Flight with Pilot
from $233
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Oludeniz Paragliding Fethiye Turkey, Additional Features
from $119
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Tandem Paragliding Adventure
from $109
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Tandem Paragliding Experience from Interlaken
from $252
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Tandem Paragliding with Hotel Pickup
from $77
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Paragliding Tour with GoPro Photos & Videos
from $109
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Paragliding, Camel Ride & Berber Villages Trip
from $90
In the Alps you are paying for altitude, and it is worth every franc.
A Swiss tandem costs three times a Turkish one. What the difference buys is a lift instead of a walk, a landing field beside a lake, and a wall of snow at eye level for twenty minutes.
Every alpine flight →
What a tandem paragliding flight costs, low to high.
Every priced flight on the site in three bands. The gap between them is mostly altitude, airtime and what a pilot earns at that launch site.
Turkish and Colombian coast flights. Fifteen to twenty-five minutes of air, transfer usually thrown in.
The world standard: half an hour over a lagoon, a city or a volcano, with the photos normally extra.
Alpine wings, hang gliding off Rio, and the high launches you need a lift ticket to reach.
Three flights that exist nowhere else.
Thermals are everywhere. A mountain that drops straight into a lagoon, a trench with seventy-two waterfalls coming off its lip, and a granite ramp that fires hang gliders at a city beach are not.
The Oludeniz Ramp
Babadag rises to just under two thousand metres straight out of the sea behind Oludeniz, and a road and a cable car run to the top. Pilots launch off cut ramps at roughly 1,700 and 1,900 metres, work the coastal air along the ridge, then spiral down onto the sand spit beside the lagoon. The mountain flies most of the year, which is why half the tandem pilots in Europe seem to spend their summer on it.
- 1Paragliding Oludeniz – Fethiye, Turkey★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,128 reviews
- 2Oludeniz Paragliding Fethiye Turkey, Additional Features★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,813 reviews
- 3Paragliding In Fethiye Oludeniz, Turkey★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 929 reviews
The Waterfall Trench
Murren sits on the west wall of the Lauterbrunnen valley, a trench with vertical rock on both sides and waterfalls coming off the lip in every direction. Launch from the terrace and you fly inside it rather than over it, with the Staubbach falling close to three hundred metres beside you. Wind funnels hard down the valley, so the morning slots are the ones that reliably go.
- 1Tandem Paragliding Flight with Pilot★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 2,117 reviews
- 2Tandem Paragliding Experience from Interlaken★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,655 reviews
- 3Tandem Paragliding Experience with Transport from Interlaken★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 767 reviews
The Rio Ramp
Above Sao Conrado a wooden ramp juts off Pedra Bonita, and hang gliders take a short run down it into the sea air with the pilot behind and the passenger out in front. The glide follows the forest down to Pepino beach and lands on the sand between the sunbathers. This is the one place in the world where the hang glider, not the paraglider, is the local product.
- 1Hang Gliding Adventure★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 760 reviews
- 2Hang Gliding Tandem Flight★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 426 reviews
- 3Hang Gliding or Paragliding Flights★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 132 reviews
What actually stops a paragliding flight.
No licence, no training and no head for heights required. Weight and wind are the two things that send people home: most operators fly passengers somewhere between thirty and a hundred kilos, and a launch site facing the wrong wind simply does not open that day. Morning air is smoother, afternoon air is stronger, and a cancelled slot gets rebooked rather than flown badly.
Four paragliding flights that will not wait for you.
Most launch sites will take a walk-in the day before. These four run on cable-car timetables, short seasons and pilot rosters that fill weeks out.
- 01Paragliding Oludeniz – Fethiye, TurkeyBabadag runs on one road and one cable car, with a queue of pilots at the top. In July and August the morning slots go days ahead.
- 02Tandem Paragliding Flight with PilotInterlaken flies a short alpine summer out of a handful of landing fields. Weekends go first, and they go early.
- 03Paragliding Tour with GoPro Photos & VideosMedellin flies off a single ridge outside the city, and the usable window is a few hours wide in the middle of the day.
- 04Adventure Paragliding Trip with Photos and VideosPokhara flies in the clear autumn window when the Annapurnas are out. The season is short and every pilot in town is booked through it.
Paragliding seasons, launch country by launch country.
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