ÖLÜDENİZ

Ölüdeniz, “Beach of Freedom”
With its shielded calm water Ölüdeniz and just next to it Belceğiz Beach brings together the white waves of the Mediterranean Sea and the pine forestry’s greenness.
The favorite Ölüdeniz Lagoon National Park and Belceğiz Beach of world tourism is 15 km. away from Fethiye center and located at the foot of Baba Mountain which deserves to be a “world heritage” with its rich flora and with its convenient position for paragliding.

Besides of benefiting from sea, sun and sand, Belceğiz Beach provides possibilities of all kinds of water sports. Again, by participating in daily boat tours from the beach you can discover the other beauties around Ölüdeniz, with a mini-blue voyage, you can witness how the boundless blueness of the Mediterranean Sea turns into the immense greenness of the Taurus Mountains at the shore.
The average temperature of the daytime and the nighttime in the area is around 12 C and the sea temperature never goes below 19 C in winter, which is the reason for choosing Olüdeniz for your winter holiday.

BUTTERFLY VALLEY

KPieris Rapae, Euglapia Quadripunctia, Danaus Chtysippus, and others…. One of the most beautiful bays of Fethiye, ‘Butterfly Valley’, is located on a flat 10 hectares ground at the foot of a steep and deep valley. It is possible to pursue the life process of 30 types of daytime and 40 types of nighttime butterflies starting from the spring in the Valley which has appearance of an open air museum where the Mediterranean Sea level butterflies can be seen all together.
After enjoying the swimming in its little torques colored bay, there is a surprise waiting for the ones walking in the valley with such a rich flora….Two small waterfalls, reached at the end of steep and high abysses, provide a joyful shower possibility for the walkers. Butterfly Valley is an ideal alternative for the travelers’ having a holiday in a natural and safe environment totally refined from concrete.

THE ACTIVITIES

You can live the blue freedom either by doing tandem paragliding with an experienced pilot jumping from 1975 meters high Baba Mountain which lies just behind Olüdeniz, or by scuba diving or diving by snorkel in the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Rafting and canoeing in the white waves of Dalaman and Eşen streams and trekking on the “Lycian Path” marked with the signboards at every 100 meters between Fethiye and Antalya above the Taurus Mountains, are among the other popular alternative tourism activities in the area. Discover the lights of the nature, the history and the culture once more in the area