{"id":117,"date":"2012-06-03T00:57:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T23:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tristanhoffmann.de\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-06-08T21:11:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:11:56","slug":"paragliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tristanhoffmann.de\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Paragliding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously the first weekend has to be used to explore the city a bit more than is possible during the working days. In the morning I bought some food and put some money on my SIM-card to that I finally have mobile internet. Afterwards I went to a nice park very close to the hostel to find my first Geocache in outside Germany \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Afterwards the sun came out so I had to use the chance to go paragliding which is one of the popular tourist attractions. Because the city is located slightly above the cost it is almost a perfect spot for paragliders. Still the wind is not always optimal, I was told they hadn’t flown since Monday due to bad wind conditions.<\/p>\n

To get there I had to walk a bit through Miraflores and discovered a frozen jogurt store, a great outdoor shopping center directly at the coast and the Mariott hotel, probably the most expensive hotel over here and one of the biggest buildings.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I lost some time during the walk, because I walked around things to much. When I reached the starting point, there was a long queue already and 30 seconds (really!) before it was my turn the sun vanished behind clouds that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Since I had forgotten to buy sunscreen and was out in the sun a few hours already I thought it might not save me from getting sunburned. Still the 10-minute flight was really nice, but except from the start it was really smooth. We flew very close to the Mariott hotel and over the sea, a nice perspective upon a new city. Somehow I had expected more adrenaline though, I don’t know why it feels this save to fly a few hundred meters above ground. For instance I’m really afraid of bungee jumping which might be less dangerous.<\/p>\n