Oludeniz Beach

This guide to Ölüdeniz Beach opens with the extraordinary safety record of the paragliders launching from Babadağ above you, then explains how a curved sandbar built up over millennia walls this lagoon off from the open Mediterranean, keeping the water famously calm. It also carries the local legend behind the name itself, the dead sea, involving a sailor's son, a hidden gap in the cliffs, and a girl named Belcekiz who is said to have followed him into the water. Listen for how the guide ties the pilots overhead to the story written into the water below.