Turkish Riviera · by air via Dalaman
Ölüdeniz’s Blue Lagoon, paragliders over Babadağ, the ghost village of Kayaköy and Lycian tombs above Fethiye.
Riviera feature
Turquoise water, rock tombs and a ghost village.
Swim early, walk Kayaköy at sunset.
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The back story
Lycian rock tombs, a famous lagoon, paragliders over the sea and a ghost village in the hills.
Turquoise water under the mountains
The sheltered lagoon and beach at Ölüdeniz, below Babadağ, with paragliders landing on the sand.
A ghost village of stone houses
Hundreds of roofless stone houses on a hillside between Fethiye and Ölüdeniz, abandoned in the 1920s.
A temple front in the cliff
The 4th-century BC Lycian rock tomb with a temple facade, cut into the cliff above Fethiye.
By air to Dalaman
Flights from Istanbul to Dalaman, then about an hour by road to Fethiye.
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