Khanh Hoa has conditions to develop paragliding. The establishment of Nha Trang Paragliding Club is a foundation to build paragliding movement as well as make paragliding to become a tourist product in Nha Trang in the time to come.
Khanh Hoa has conditions to develop paragliding. The establishment of Nha Trang Paragliding Club is a foundation to build paragliding movement as well as make paragliding to become a tourist product in Nha Trang in the time to come.
Paragliding has just entered Vietnam for a short time but paragliding movement is developing rather rapidly. The whole country has about 300 professional paragliders in 10 clubs in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Khanh Hoa. The whole country has more than 20 licensed flying spots, two of them are in Khanh Hoa, one in Chin Khuc mountain (Vinh Thai Commune, Nha Trang City) and Khanh Le mountain pass (Son Thai Commune, Khanh Vinh District). The flying spot on Khanh Le mountain pass is appreciated as one of the best flying places for paragliding in Vietnam. A lot of local and foreign paragliders have come there for paragliding and sight-seeing.
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Many localities in the country have attended to develop paragliding in tourism. For example, Yen Bai and Da Nang have organized paragliding festival, attracting a lot of local and foreign tourists. Experienced people rate that Khanh Hoa has potentials to develop paragliding as well as make it become service for tourists, especially foreign tourists.
Nha Trang Paragliding Club, established since 2015, has 50 members. The club has made a lot of contributions into managing this sport.
Recently, Nha Trang Paragliding Club has asked the provincial Department of Culture and Sports to open a paragliding class to develop this game more. According to Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, head of the club, because of its special features, paragliding is not for everyone. A glider costs at least VND50 million. The club only enrolls people having good record.
Nha Trang Paragliding Club has a plan to connect with travel companies to operate paragliding tours. “This sport is very potential to develop tourism. Tourists can fly with an instructor after being guided. A paragliding tour costs about VND2 million”, Thanh said.
Thanh Nguyen
Translated by T.T
