Take-off – Dora
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- Direction
- NNEESESSWWNW
- Coordinates
- 34.8005, 32.7403
- Altitude
- 687 m
- Region
- Limassol, CY
- Landing
- 0.9 km from the take-offView on map ↗
Take-off description
difficult : short and steep The launch lies northeast of Dora village, just off the main road at the north end of the bowl. It is about 1300 feet above the river plain, faces southwest and catches the prevailing breezes coming up the valley from the coast.
Getting there
Dora village seats atop a ridge that overlooks a wide valley formed by the Diarizos river (don\'t look for a real river). This valley is one of several fairly deep and wide drainage’s radiating from the mountains to the coastal plain in southwest Cyprus.
Comments
This is a good thermal soaring site in light winds and is soarable when the winds increase. In the latter case thermals may make the air rather turbulent without providing much height gain.