Blue Lagoon

This guide to the Blue Lagoon in Muğla opens with a local legend: a ship's captain, his son, and a girl named Belcekiz who showed the boy a hidden channel through the cliffs into the lagoon behind you. A storm at sea turns the story serious, and you'll hear how sailors once navigated this same water for a living. From there the guide turns to today's occupants of the cliffs above, the paragliders who launch from Babadağ, nearly two thousand meters up. It traces how pilots now read this coastline the way that old captain once did.