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Looking at the earth from above the ground is absolutely beautiful. If you have taken any Hot Air balloon rides or any parasailing rides, you would know that. There are many popular tourist places in the world where you can pay some big bucks to get a helicopter ride to get that view.

But now you can get your helicopter ride from within Google Maps and that too for free. How? Lets check it out

Google Maps has launched a new feature where you can see the Maps in 3D with Google Earth Plugin. But now you can find the driving directions and can actually see the route as if you are flying in the helicopter.

So go to maps.google.com, select the "Earth" layer, If you don't have Google Earth plugin installed, it will ask you to install it. Install the Google Earth Plugin. Now once its installed, refresh the google maps page.

Enter your starting address and the destination address. Now once the direction is shown, you will see a small button on the left side "3D". Click on that and it will convert your driving direction into an actual 3D birds eye view (like a helicopter ride).

Check out this Spain's route where Hritik Roshan, Abhay Deol & Farhan Akhtar drove in the movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara on Google Maps 3D Helicopter Ride