May/June

Where to go hang gliding and paragliding in May and June

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The best days are post cold frontal. Photo: Nick Greece

Guide to Woodrat, USA

Woodrat, Oregon is home of the famous Rat Race comp, in the heart of the great American outdoors
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Flying the Sierra Madre, with the road to take-off on the far ridge. Photo: Ed Ewing

Guide to Zaachila, Mexico

Come to Zaachila in the Sierra Madre for reliable high-altitude flying, with a wealth of culture to explore when you're not in the air
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Gliders climb away from the south-west launch into another epic sky. Photo: Benoit Morel

Guide to St Andre, France

St Andre combines everything you need to have a stunning Alpine flying holiday in one sunny package
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Guide to St Hilaire du Touvet, France

St Hilaire du Touvet is home to the famous Coupe Icare festival – free-flying's Woodstock
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Flying at Sopot – awesome! Photo: Martin Scheel

Guide to Sopot, Bulgaria

Come to Sopot for varied mountain and flatland flying throughout the summer, little air traffic and easy XC
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Buachaille Etive Mor on the left, with snowclad Ben Nevis on the horizon. Photo: Jerome Maupoint

Guide to Glencoe, Scotland

Glencoe offers remote and rugged but accessible flying in the stunning scenery that is the Western Highlands of Scotland
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Andy Froetscher at the start of the X-Alps. Photo: Vitek Ludvik / Red Bull Content Pool

Guide to Salzburg, Austria

Indulge your Red Bull X-Alps fantasies and fly the Gaisberg, the first turnpoint on the world’s toughest paragliding adventure race
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Looking back along the Christ Run to launch near Pedra Bonita, the flat-topped mountain. Photo: Nader Couri

Guide to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Come to Rio for spectacular, year-round flying in one of the world's great cities
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On board with Olivier Laugero as he climbs out from launch above the start of the Sacred Valley that leads to Machu Pichhu. Photo: Olivier Laugero

Guide to Cusco, Peru

Flying in Cusco is a high altitude experience in the land of the Incas, with the magnificent site of Machu Picchu
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Winging it down to Piedrahita town after another big XC day. Photo: Jerôme Maupoint

Guide to Piedrahita, Spain

Piedrahita is Europe’s flatland Mecca, and one of the world’s most reliable comp venues
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