Learning To Paraglide In Brasov, Romania With Team Paramania

Posted on by Darren Alff
04
Oct

When making plans for my time in Brasov, Romania, I stumbled across a website that was advertising a 10-day class where you could learn to fly a paraglider.

“How awesome!” I thought. “I want to do that.”

After a quick email and a near hour-long Skype call with the instructor of the class, I committed to the endeavor before I even left my temporary home in Varna, Bulgaria. Now that my paragliding lessons in Romania are over, I can tell you that signing up for this course has been one of the best things I have ever done in my 12+ years of bicycle travel.

Not only did I get to fly a paraglider both in tandem and on my own, but I met some awesome people, saw numerous parts of Romania, entered my first paragliding competition, and learned a skill that I will be able to use to fly paragliders almost anywhere in the world.

Above are just a bunch of random photos from my day-to-day instructional paragliding lessons in the hills outside Brasov, Romania. In the photos with me are Robert (my instructor), Laurent (who is from France, but has a software development company here Romania), Mihai and Orelean.

Other pictures and stories from my paragliding class can be viewed by visiting the links below:

Darren Alff

My goal as the "Bicycle Touring Pro" is to give you the confidence and inspiration you need to travel by bicycle anywhere in the world. I'm here to help you plan, prepare for, and execute your first bike tour and remove all the guesswork, wasted time and frustration that plagues so many first-time bicycle travelers.

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