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Paragliding Festival Takes off Today Friday 7th April.

Paragliding Festival Takes off Today Friday 7th April. A pilot and a passenger paragliding during the 2019 festival The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has launched the 2023 edition of the Kwahu Easter Paragliding Festival which is scheduled to take place from today, April 7 to Monday, April 10. At the launch in March at Nkwatia-Kwahu in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region, GTA announced that the cost of flying during this year’s paragliding festival would be GH¢950. An annual celebration organised by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture in collaboration with GTA and the chiefs and Okwahuman, the Kwahu Easter Paragliding Festival has not only gone international but has also become an integral part of the Kwahu Easter festivities since 2005. Paragliding was introduced as part of the Easter festivities during the tenure of then Minister of Tourism and Modernisation of the capital city Accra, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey after he visited the Kwahu ridge as part of his familia...