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Six hundred metres of air -
The step off the edge
Kijabe · Great Rift Valley · Kenya
Step off the escarpment.
Let the valley hold you.
Tandem paragliding flights and pilot training 600 metres above the floor of the Great Rift Valley — 90 minutes from Nairobi.
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Who we are
Kenya's Rift Valley, flown by people who have read this air for years.
Paramaestro Ke is a Kijabe-based paragliding outfit. We fly tandem passengers who have never left the ground, we train the pilots who go on to fly solo, and we know the escarpment well enough to tell you honestly when it is not a flying day.
Certified & current
Qualified tandem pilots on certified wings, harnesses and reserves — inspected before every flying day.
Honest weather calls
Any pilot can stand a flight down, no discussion. You get a new slot or a full refund.
Built for first-timers
Most of our passengers have never flown. Nothing happens until you say you are ready.
Photos included
Stills and video from a pole-mounted camera, delivered within 48 hours.
Ways to fly
Pick your altitude
Four ways into the same sky — from a first fifteen minutes above the escarpment to a full pilot licence.
The numbers
Six hundred metres of nothing underneath you, and it feels like the safest place on earth.
The Kijabe launch sits at 2,600 metres on the eastern wall of the Great Rift Valley. From there the ground drops away and the escarpment does the rest.
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How the day goes
From the car park to the landing field
Step 01
Meet and brief
We meet at the Kijabe launch, check the wind and walk you through the whole flight on the ground: how the harness works, the running steps at launch, where your hands go, and how the landing works. Nothing happens until you say you are ready.
Step 02
Gear up
You are fitted into a certified tandem harness with a reserve parachute and a helmet. Your pilot runs the pre-flight checks out loud so you can hear every one of them.
Step 03
Three running steps
The wing comes up overhead, your pilot calls it, and you run. Four steps later the hillside stops being underneath you and you sit back into the seat.
Step 04
The air
Fifteen to twenty minutes of the Rift Valley opening out below you — Longonot on the horizon, the escarpment falling away, and a quiet you do not get anywhere else.
Step 05
Landing
A long, gentle approach into an open field on the valley floor. Stand up out of the harness, two or three steps, done. Then we drive you back up.
Ninety seconds
There is no way to describe the quiet. So here it is instead.
No engine, no rotor wash, no noise — just moving air and the occasional chirp of a vario telling your pilot the wing has found something worth turning in.
Filmed at Kijabe
2,600 m launch
Shot from the wing
The site
Kijabe: the oldest flying site in Kenya
Discovered by pilots in the 1990s and still the reference site for the whole country. Three take-offs on the summit, reliable escarpment thermals from mid-morning, and landing options measured in square kilometres.
- Launch at roughly 2,600 m above sea level
- 600 m of vertical to the valley floor
- Escarpment thermals from about 10:30
- 90 minutes by road from central Nairobi
What people say
Their first time, in their words
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/ 5
★★★★★
Across 128 reviewed flights
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Flights logged
100%
Rebooked, never rushed
From the journal
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Notes from the escarpment
Ready when you are
The wind at Kijabe does not wait.
Neither should you.
Tell us roughly when you would like to fly and we will find you the right slot, the right wing and the right air.