This is absolutely not for the faint hearted, but if you're brave enough to jump out of a plane at almost 13,000ft, a sky dive above the magnificent city of Dubai is the best way of sightseeing all the famous landmarks at an angle and height that only a special few will ever have the experience of doing!
...You don't have to attend hours of training to undertake a free fall dive unless you want to become a a qualified solo sky diver but if you're on holiday in Dubai and have a couple of thousand dirhams and ofcourse are an adrenaline junkie - you must do this! First time sky divers will be chaperoned by an experienced qualified sky diver and harnessed fully and share the same parachute. Simple instructions will be given but the general advice is to be calm and enjoy the whole experience. The actual free fall time is a minute and the rest of the parachute glide is about an hour, but allow yourself three hours for the whole experience. This experience is strictly for over 18 years only.
For those want to experience a thrill but need a bit of indoor training first, a company called iFly Dubai offer simulated sky diving packages which they claim are so close to the real feeling of sky diving but obvioulsy without the view! Kids as young as 3 years and adults can try out the simulator and the free fall time is actually longer then the real thing. The package includes a 15 minute training session via a video demo, jumpsuits and then the actual experience in the vertical wind tunnel with a supervised expert. Kids love it and many adults use it as a stepping stone for an actual sky dive.
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