Tandem Paragliding Flight from Lion's Head or Signal Hill in Cape Town, South Africa

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Activity Snapshot

Fitness level: Everybody welcome
Duration: 20 min
Spoken languages: Afrikaans, English
Minimum age: From 14 years-old and up
Cancellation policy: moderate More info
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Activity description

Discover Cape Town from a completely new perspective, from above!

During this tandem paragliding flight, you'll not only enjoy breathtaking views of Cape Town, the iconic Table Mountain, and the Ocean but also experience a thrilling moment in the air. Thanks to expert pilots you can enjoy this experience in complete safety.

Depending on the wind conditions, your paragliding flight will depart from Lion's Head or Signal Hill, both located above Cape Town in the Table Mountain National Park. After a few gentle steps, you'll glide off and paraglide over Camps Bay and Clifton before landing either on Camps Bay or in front of The Bungalow.

For an unforgettable adventure in South Africa, don't miss this tandem paragliding flight above Cape Town! 

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Tandem Flight
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Your Tandem Paragliding flight over Cape Town is an experience you'll never forget! The professional pilots of Icarus Paragliding take care of everything and assure a safe flight. Of 1 hour activity time, you'll spend around 5-15 minutes in the air. It all depends on the wind and weather conditions. The take-off point is Lion's Head or Signal Hill, depending on the wind conditions on the day of your flight. In both cases, you will enjoy amazing views over the city of Cape Town, its beaches, iconic Table Mountain, and the deep blue ocean. 

Objectives

- Feel free like a bird and experience how flying feels.

- Try paragliding, a peaceful and yet sensational outdoor activity. 

- Discover Cape Town, Table Mountain, and the Ocean from the air and enjoy breathtaking views.

Course of events

- Meet the Icarus Paragliding's crew and pilots at the Meeting Point on Signal Hill. There is a car park where you can leave your car.

- Your paragliding pilot will brief you on take-off and landing procedures before your flight. You will be provided you will all the necessary equipment including helmets, harnesses with back protection, reserve parachutes, and the crew will execute careful pre-flight checks and pre-launch observation.

- The pilots are professionals with a lot of experience. You can fully trust them, if the conditions are not safe, they will not fly.

- Take off requires only a few steps, once airborne you will be instructed to sit comfortably in your harness and simply enjoy the sensations and the view!

- Landings are on a specific area of grass or beach sand and require that you stand up in the harness and take a few steps as you touch the ground. A piece of cake!

- From the landing spot there is the possibility to be brought back up to the meeting point with a transfer (excluded in the flight price, R200 per vehicule).

Activity requirements

- Participants must be in good health. No need to be particularly sporty.

- Participants must not exceed 120kg (265lb).

- Minimum age: 12 years / 20kg (44lb)

- The exact meeting point (Signal Hill or Lion's Hill) will be confirmed with your instructor after booking.

- No previous paragliding experience necessary.

- Make sure to wear closed shoes (hiking boots or sneakers) and clothes adapted to weather conditions on the day of your flight (warm cloths, wind breaker jacket etc.).

Special terms

- Minors must have parental authorization.

- Transportation can be arranged with the instructor for an extra R200.

- Paragliding is subject to weather conditions. Please note that depending on the wind direction and strength, your flight might take off from Signal Hill.

- You can bring your own camera. You can also buy the pictures and videos taken of your flight by your pilot for R300.

- Icarus Paragliding have also excellent female pilots!

- This activity disability-friendly and can be done when sitting in a wheelchair. Have a look here: www.manawa.com/en-GB/view-activity/5675

- This is a training paragliding flight.

Do not forget to bring
  • Sunscreen
  • Sunglasses
  • Closed shoes
  • Warm clothes
  • Camera
Sensation Level:

Chill

Fitness level:

Everybody welcome

Duration:

20 min

Minimum age:

From 14 years-old and up

Meeting point:

Icarus Paragliding Signal Hill

Included:
  • All necessary equipment
Excluded:
  • Transportation to meeting point ( + R200 per vehicle)
  • Photos or video ( + R300)
2
Tandem Flight | with photos and videos
Read more

Your Tandem Paragliding flight over Cape Town is an experience you'll never forget! The professional pilots of Icarus Paragliding take care of everything and assure a safe flight. Of 1 hour activity time, you'll spend around 5-15 minutes in the air. It all depends on the wind and weather conditions. The take-off point is Lion's Head or Signal Hill, depending on the wind conditions on the day of your flight. In both cases, you will enjoy amazing views over the city of Cape Town, its beaches, iconic Table Mountain, and the deep blue ocean. 

Objectives

- Feel free like a bird and experience how flying feels.

- Try paragliding, a peaceful and yet sensational outdoor activity. 

- Discover Cape Town, Table Mountain, and the Ocean from the air and enjoy breathtaking views.

Course of events

- Meet the Icarus Paragliding's crew and pilots at the Meeting Point on Signal Hill. There is a car park where you can leave your car.

- Your paragliding pilot will brief you on take-off and landing procedures before your flight. You will be provided you will all the necessary equipment including helmets, harnesses with back protection, reserve parachutes, and the crew will execute careful pre-flight checks and pre-launch observation.

- The pilots are professionals with a lot of experience. You can fully trust them, if the conditions are not safe, they will not fly.

- Take off requires only a few steps, once airborne you will be instructed to sit comfortably in your harness and simply enjoy the sensations and the view!

- Landings are on a specific area of grass or beach sand and require that you stand up in the harness and take a few steps as you touch the ground. A piece of cake!

- From the landing spot there is the possibility to be brought back up to the meeting point with a transfer (excluded in the flight price, R200 per vehicule).

Activity requirements

- Participants must be in good health. No need to be particularly sporty.

- Participants must not exceed 120kg (265lb).

- Minimum age: 12 years / 20kg (44lb)

- The exact meeting point (Signal Hill or Lion's Hill) will be confirmed with your instructor after booking.

- No previous paragliding experience necessary.

- Make sure to wear closed shoes (hiking boots or sneakers) and clothes adapted to weather conditions on the day of your flight (warm cloths, wind breaker jacket etc.).

Special terms

- Minors must have parental authorization.

- Transportation can be arranged with the instructor for an extra R200.

- Paragliding is subject to weather conditions. Please note that depending on the wind direction and strength, your flight might take off from Signal Hill.

- You can bring your own camera. You can also buy the pictures and videos taken of your flight by your pilot for R300.

- Icarus Paragliding have also excellent female pilots!

- This activity disability-friendly and can be done when sitting in a wheelchair. Have a look here: www.manawa.com/en-GB/view-activity/5675

- This is a training paragliding flight.

Do not forget to bring
  • Sunscreen
  • Sunglasses
  • Closed shoes
  • Warm clothes
  • Camera
Sensation Level:

Chill

Fitness level:

Everybody welcome

Duration:

20 min

Minimum age:

From 14 years-old and up

Meeting point:

Icarus Paragliding Signal Hill

Included:
  • All necessary equipment
  • Pilot
  • Photos and videos
Excluded:
  • Transportation to meeting point ( + R200 per vehicle)
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Meeting point

Icarus Paragliding Signal Hill Get directions

Cancellation policy

Cancellation 10 days or more prior to the agreed activity date
You will be automatically refunded for the full amount for the activity
10 days
Cancellation between 4 and 10 days prior to the agreed activity date
You are entitled to a 50% refund
4 days
Cancellation 4 days or later prior to the agreed activity date
No refund will be possible
Weather Guarantee
Regardless of the date, if the activity is cancelled due to bad weather conditions, you will be offered a refund or the chance to reschedule

Reviews

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4.6 / 5
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  • 5 / 5

It was beautiful

  • 5 / 5

Excellent experience. First time for me paragliding and my pilot, Jacques, could not have been better.

  • 5 / 5

Awesomeness

  • 5 / 5

Very great experience

  • 4.3 / 5

The activity itseld was so much fun and I would do it over and over again. However, I paid for the photos and only got about 30 while my friend went at the same time, got about 280 photos and they were much better quality.

  • 4.5 / 5

Absolutely loved it and can't wait to do it again, this has made my visit to Cape Town very memorable

  • 4 / 5

It was great but it would have been nice to have more than 15 min. of flight. Went by too quickly.

  • 5 / 5

I can’t recommend this activity enough! It feels like flying, there’s the most amazing release being so high, it’s like you’re on top of the world. I would even recommend this to people who have a fear of heights because at no point do you feel like you’re in free fall. You feel 100% secure the entire time, and when you run off the hill, you’re in the air before you’ve reached the edge. The most amazing experience, I would love to start every day like this. The only down side is the weather- because it’s so precarious and can change within an hour, we had to rebook our flight twice. This was obviously no one’s fault and I applaud the instructor and owner of Icarus for being so safety conscious, but it can affect your other plans, so just something to be mindful of. It’s worth getting in touch with your instructor an hour or two before flying.

  • 4 / 5

A great experience. It will not be the last time I will fly !

  • 5 / 5

a great experience

  • 5 / 5

A very enjoyable experience with well-knowledged pilots. Their skill and personalities would calm even the most nervous flyers and really adds a lot to the experience.

  • 5 / 5

The most exhilarating thing to do, was so amazing. The views were incredible and the feeling of flying was better than I imagine. We booked it on a whim last minute and were so glad we did. We managed to go off Lions Head and had a good long flight.

  • 4.3 / 5

First time paragliding and it was everything i imagined it to be! Incredible views. Only marking down because wind conditions meant i didnt take off from Lions Head and the flight ended up being only 5mins instead of 20, however sometimes that cannot be helped!

  • 4 / 5

A great experience

  • 5 / 5

Paragliding - the winds were low but good enough to fly we only got around 3-4 minutes fly time which can not be helped in some cases so I won't mark it down. The experience was still made exciting with a swooping land!

  • 5 / 5

Parachute tandem

  • 4.8 / 5

It was amazing!

  • 5 / 5

Great experience. Awesome service

  • 4 / 5

Was amazing, I’ll recommend to everybody

  • 5 / 5

Paragliding, Cape Town

  • 3.5 / 5

Awesome experience. Right spot, right time!

  • 4.5 / 5

Something that I cannot even describe. Amazing and "vibrating".