{"id":8081,"date":"2016-06-27T09:28:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activeazur.com\/?page_id=8081"},"modified":"2017-12-19T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:24:09","slug":"saint-andre-les-alpes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefrance.com\/paragliding\/south-france\/saint-andre-les-alpes","title":{"rendered":"Paragliding in Saint-Andr\u00e9-les-Alpes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long mountain ridges, powerful thermals and 300 days of sunshine per year make Saint-Andr\u00e9-les-Alpes one of the world’s best paragliding sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paragliding at the Le Chalvet site in St Andr\u00e9<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Saint-Andr\u00e9-les-Alpes is a little Haute-Provence village of 900 inhabitants at the northern end of the turquoise Lac de Castillon in the Verdon Natural Reserve<\/a>. <\/p>\n

During its 20 years as a paragliding destination, St Andr\u00e9 has carved out a reputation as one of the world’s top sites for cross-country flying<\/strong>. The thermal rockets of the southern French Alps conspire with the high cloud base, dominant north-south winds and interconnected ridges to make it a superb jumping off point for some epic long distance flights. Testimony to this is the fact that a number of paragliding world records have been set from Le Chalvet and pilots from all over the world flock here to improve their cross-country PBs.<\/p>\n

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Paragliding Lessons and Tandem Flights in St Andr\u00e9 les Alpes<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

St Andr\u00e9 is also a great place to learn to paraglide. Big open landing sites, a thermal breeze you can set your watch by and take-offs possible into four points of the compass. And with easy access via a tarmac road from local school A\u00e9rogliss<\/a> top to bottom logistics are straightforward.<\/p>\n