The Mexican territory has some of the best and most beautiful settings for extreme sports. Its big cliffs and mountains attract adventurers every year to our country to practice paragliding, a sport, whose name comes from the contraction of the words “parachute” and “cliff”, which perfectly describes this adventure: jumping off a cliff on a parachute.
This sport was invented and perfected by European mountaineers who decided that the best way to come down of a mountain was to use a parachute. Today, paragliding is one of the most popular extreme sports in the world with hundreds of thousands of pilots participating in it because it is as close to flying without using an airplane or a helicopter as possible. It is about handling a parachute, pulling the ropes constituting the parachute and directing it by means of a harness which perceives the direction of the wind.
Paragliding arrived in Mexico at the beginning of the 90s, and was very well accepted. Places like the State of Mexico, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Veracruz and the State of Puebla, are some of the destinations with the best places to practice this sport in Mexico, and here we will tell you all you need to know to be able to get the best out of you adventure of flying through air. Travel over more than 62 miles at a height of over 16,404 feet using the hot air currents in your favor. ¡See you at the landing point!
