Valle de Bravo en México, es un pueblo que se caracteriza por tener una gran diversidad de costumbres, artesanías, naturaleza y actividades deportivas de aventura. En este lugar cada año se celebra la famosa competicion internacional de parapente Monarca Open. Este ano tambien habra Pre-Mundial ya que en 2009 en este lugar se celebrara el mundial. 150 pilotos de parapente de todo el mundo se daran cita del 19 Enero hasta el 2 de Febrero para ser parte de una de las competiciones más desafiantes e importantes del Mundo. Grandes figuras del parapente mundial como Ewa Wisnierska, Josh Cohn, Philippe Broers, Jean-Marc Caron, Will Gadd, Anja Kroll, Toma Coconea, Andreas Malecki y muchos otros estaran en las compes. Aqui va la web de la competicion.
Valle de Bravo is a village in Mexico near a lake with awesome scenery where every year takes place one of the most important paragliding competition in the world; the Monarca Open. This year it will also host the Pre-World Champioships, given that in 2009 the place will host the main paraglidng wolrd event. 150 pilots from all over the world will arrive in Valle on the 19th of January 2008 to race in what is going to be one of the most spectacular and challenngin events of next year calendar. I will take part in both comps and I will have the privilege and pleasure to share thermals with some of the biggest names in world paragliding (Ewa Wisnierska, Josh Cohn, Philippe Broers, Jean-Marc Caron, Will Gadd, Anja Kroll, Toma Coconea, Andreas Malecki and many more) and see again a lot of friends in the competition scene from Spain, Brazil, Italy, Venezuela etc.. Web page of the comp here.