No holiday to Fethiye, Turkey is complete without a day on the beach at Ölüdeniz, one of the most photographed beaches in the world. Belcekiz Beach has the crashing waves or you can swim in the lagoon.
Turkey's most famous beach is 15 km from Fethiye. The calm turquoise water, with its white sand beach sheltered from the sea and rimmed by dense pine forest, is impossibly perfect. There's a reason why people have been flocking here for years now. Some of Ölüdeniz's sheen has been shaken off over the past two decades as package tourism arrived on the scene, but the lagoon area has not seen the ugly construction development of other tourism hot-spots and the village attached to the lagoon is still a low-storey unobtrusive affair.
If you don't want to swim or sunbathe, then the other big activity here is paragliding. Mt Baba(Baba Daǧ) dominates the scenery inland and paragliders launch themselves off the peak throughout the summer months. Even beginners can have a go with a tandem paragliding flight.
Turkey's most famous beach is 15 km from Fethiye. The calm turquoise water, with its white sand beach sheltered from the sea and rimmed by dense pine forest, is impossibly perfect. There's a reason why people have been flocking here for years now. Some of Ölüdeniz's sheen has been shaken off over the past two decades as package tourism arrived on the scene, but the lagoon area has not seen the ugly construction development of other tourism hot-spots and the village attached to the lagoon is still a low-storey unobtrusive affair.
If you don't want to swim or sunbathe, then the other big activity here is paragliding. Mt Baba(Baba Daǧ) dominates the scenery inland and paragliders launch themselves off the peak throughout the summer months. Even beginners can have a go with a tandem paragliding flight.