Paragliding in Colombia - 5 reasons every paraglider pilot should consider visiting.

Beautiful people, relaxing beaches, delicious food, an emerging start-up community and relatively low costs makes Colombia a very desirable destination for any paragliding adventurer.

After looking at some of the photos of Colombian beaches a few months ago, I really had to ask myself, why am I living here in Salt Lake City (at the time) with very poor air quality and rather bland but nice culture.  There are a lot of good reasons to go to Salt Lake City especially for paragliding training and I will cover those in a future post.

These first 2 pictures are from Santa Marta Colombia region and look like a delightful place to swim in the ocean and fly paragliders.  This google map picture to the left looks like an ideal bowl to paraglide although I do not know if it is being used that way today.

The blog "Medellin Living" is a great resource for foreigners wanting to live in Colombia.  This article describes how Colombia is investing heavily in making the country more safe and incentives like start-up seed funding.  More of this article here.

This same blog also wrote an interesting story about the authors new found joy of paragliding and his second tandem flight with DragonFly Paragliding.  The launch in San Felix, Colombia looks well groomed with grass and DragonFly has it's operations very close by.  The complete article can be read here.