Chitwan, April 14
Commercial paragliding flights have started in Chitwan today. The service started from Chaukidanda on Friday.
Shalik Dawadi, the director at Himalayan Frontiers Paragliding Company, which started the service for the first time in Chitwan, informs that the flight was started on the occasion of the first day of the Nepali new year.
“The official inauguration will take place later, but flights have started to take off from today,” he says.
Paragliders will take off from Chaukidanda in Chitwan and land on the bank of the Trishuli river in the Devghat rural municipality of Tanahun.
Dawadi says that the price of a flight has been fixed at Rs 8,000, but as a promotional offer, it is only charging Rs 6,000 for now.
Dawadi informs preparations have been made so that up to 45 people can fly daily.
Nepal’s tourism capital Pokhara has long been considered the most attractive paragliding destination in Nepal, but a new international airport built there has virtually closed the activity there.
Now Chitwan aspires to replace Pokhara as Nepal’s most favoured destination for the acitivity.
