What you will learn
// Equipment - Type of hike and fly equipment, how to pack your bag and glider and other equipment to use during the hike and fly adventures.
// Weather and site selection - Taking off from places where no one has flown from before can be daunting. Choosing the right day to go fly is the first step in having safe hike and fly adventures. Airflow. We also look at site selection and route preparation.
// Take off preparation - Takeoff and landing are where most incidents occur. We will look at glider layout, site selection and topography.
// Flight planning - Possible changing wind factors for the desired route, landing options. Setting a flight plan and sticking it.
// Landing options - Choosing a landing area. Glide, wind direction indicators, access to the landing area.
// Mountain safety - How to be prepared for the hike. Route planning, food and water, emergency situations, packing of the wing, hiking in a group, access and permissions, animals, weather factors on the mountain, GPS usage when hiking, hiking techniques. Risks and dangers. First aid preparation.
Fly with a guide:
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Cape Town and its surrounding areas have many big mountains that offer beautiful flying conditions, choosing the right site on the right day is important if you want to have a nice flying day. Sky Safari offers a site guide to the best sites within the Western Cape. Book a guide for a day or a few days, we will choose the site, assist with site briefings and have radio communication with you during your flight, so you can get the most out of your flying day.
You can either book a multi-day guided tour or choose to do individual guided days during your stay here. You will be picked up at your accommodation and go fly the whole day. Sites you might be taken to will depend on your own experience
INCLUDED:
// Transport from Cape Town // Take off preparation and assistance // Guide // Recovery after flight
FLY SITES:
// Below is a list of the main sites used by Sky Safari on guided days // Cape Peninsula: Lions Head, SIgnal Hill, Table Mountain, Noordhoek peak // Cape Winelands: Franschhoek, Paarl, Sir Lowries Pass // Dune Soaring Sites: Langebaan, Betty's Bay // XC: Hermanus, Porterville, Piketberg, Kardoesie, Du Toit's Kloof Pass // Garden Route: Wilderness, Sedgefield, Plettenberg Bay
SITE GUIDING
Fly at the best sites during your visit to South Africa
Sky Safari Adventures offers site guidance to visiting and local pilots. We will guide you to get the most out of your time while flying in South Africa.
HIKE AND FLY
Site guiding
Why walk down a mountain if you can fly down? Over the last 10 years paragliding equipment has become lighter and more compact with many designers focusing on making hike and fly paragliding more accessible and safer to pilots of all skill levels. To hike and fly safely a fit pilot can hike up almost any mountain, assess the weather conditions, take-off area, landing options, and fly from there.
. We host hike and fly days for pilots of all skill levels at various locations in the Western Cape.
Bring Your Crew — Guided Paragliding Tours
Gather your flying friends and let Sky Safari Paragliding show you the Western Cape from the air. Our guided tours are built around groups of pilots who want to fly the best sites South Africa has to offer, with a local instructor and tour guide handling the planning, the logistics and the driving so you can focus on flying.
Every tour is shaped by the weather. Each morning we head to the site with the best conditions, because our aim is simple: get you flying every single day. From coastal soaring to gentle thermic sites, we choose where to fly based on what is working best, so you spend maximum time in the air at sites suited to your level.
Two Ways to Fly With Us
Choose the tour that suits your time and ambition
7-Day Cape Town Tour
Seven days flying the iconic sites in and around the Mother City. Soar Signal Hill and Lion’s Head with Table Mountain as your backdrop, then chase thermals over the vineyards and mountains of the Cape Winelands. This tour packs in the spectacular city and coastal sites Cape Town is famous for, with our team selecting the best flying each day.
12-Day Garden Route & Cape Town Tour
Twelve days across two of the country’s finest flying regions. We split our time between the Garden Route — with its long coastal ridges, easy thermic sites and over ten take-offs around Wilderness and Sedgefield — and the dramatic sites of Cape Town. It is the ultimate paragliding road trip, designed to give you the widest variety of flying and the most time in the air.
More Than a Paragliding Holiday
For those who want the full Western Cape experience
Flying always comes first, but the Western Cape has so much more to offer. On days when the weather keeps us grounded — and in the hours around flying — we make the most of where we are. Think wine tastings in the Winelands, game drives and animal encounters, scenic sightseeing tours, hikes to hidden waterfalls, swims in mountain pools, and relaxed afternoons on some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
Whether you want a pure flying mission or a holiday that blends paragliding with everything else this corner of South Africa is known for, we shape the tour around your group. Come for the air time, stay for the adventure.
