Ölüdeniz in Turkish - "Dead Sea." This famous resort is so beautiful that many refer to it as "God's gift to the world." The beautiful bay, which is amazing travelers by its beauty, surrounded by pine forests. This place is very cozy parking for yachts and ships. In a quiet harbor where, thanks to the Spit, there are no high waves, the water surface is always calm.

Oludeniz Beach is the most beautiful and popular tourist beaches in Turkey, and is now a national park. That is why on the bay no one hotel, they are building in this place forbidden to preserve the uniqueness of the local nature. The hotels are located in the back of a small nearby valleys. Almost a third of the water surface of the bay is a sand bar closes, forming a virtually closed body of water, which is called the Turks and Oludeniz bay name later spread to the whole area. It is forbidden to ride on the boat, so the water are particularly transparent and crystal-clear. Great cliffs surround the bay and create a unique quaint scenery.

To get to the lagoon can be overcome 15 km along the road from Fethiye, along which grow coniferous trees. The road goes up and down, and you will have some fatigue when suddenly you will see the extraordinarily blue sea. Its smooth surface is surprising is fixed, without any algae, and the bottom is covered with white sand. Sunlight refracted and reflected in the water from the sand becomes a delightful shade of azure. Azure becomes even richer when the shadow of the pine trees falling into the waters of the Dead Sea. It is a heavenly place called the Bay Belcekız.

On the way to Oludeniz sure to visit the small mountain village Ozhakkёy. There you can spend the night in one of the cozy guest houses, but if you want to make even a mountain crossing. In the town of Hisaronu located hotels for any taste and purse. Kayakёy ghost town is located four kilometers from Hirasonyu in it of old houses for a long time no one lives, and the church did not open the door to his parishioners. Byzantine ruins worth seeing on the island Gemiler. Before Oludeniz and can be reached by boats that depart daily from Fethiye.

Stop at Oludeniz is near Belcekiz Beach .  There is a beautiful beach, and the water temperature allows you to swim there for more than ten months of the year .  Turquoise sea seems incredible, besides there is absolutely no waves .  In this area, a lot of good hotels and bars .  The name of the bay Belcekız associated with an interesting legend about the big and bright love between a sailor and a local girl .  In those times ships sailing past the harbor, we stopped here for supplies of fresh water .  Sailors get to shore from ships that lay at anchor in the open sea, on boats .  Once the young son of the captain went ashore for water and met Belcekız .  The girl was very beautiful and lovely young man who fell in love with her at first sight, to reciprocate .  But the son of the captain must be back to the ship .  The ship sailed, and she looked for a long time after her lover .  Lovers could see each other only when the ship took place and the young sailor was sailing on the boat for water .  Once again, when the ship sailed past the bay, to develop a strong storm .  The young man tried to persuade his father to come to the bay, knowing that there is always calm water, and you can ride out the element .  Unfortunately, the old captain thought that the son is ready to smash the ship against the rocks just in order to see his girlfriend .  The storm intensified, the dispute between the father and son gaining momentum .  The captain was seriously angry, and when he saw that the ship carries the waves right on the rocks, blow threw the boy overboard .  The captain fell to the wheel and took the ship off the rocks, at the same moment he saw a bay with calm water .  But the waves have devoured him .  Belcekız did not wait lover .  She could not bear the separation and threw herself into the sea from a cliff .  Since then, the bay, where the drowned girl called Belcekız, and the place where her beloved was killed, called the Dead Sea .  How would the sorrow of such a tragic end to the evening, the sea changes color and becomes purple .

The forest surrounding the harbor, called the park "Kydrak Tabiat." It covers about 950 hectares. This park is a protected area. Under the protection of the entire beach is the Dead Sea and is very strictly control construction.

Oludeniz is considered the best place for lovers of paragliding. This is facilitated by wonderful landscapes and mountainous terrain. Especially popular with the parachute descents on the slopes of Mount Babadag, the height of which reaches 1975 meters. Everybody can enjoy hang-gliding here and appreciate the panorama of the Dead Sea.

To save the natural wonder called The Dead Sea is making great efforts. In the laboratory, the beach Belcekız taken daily for analysis of water samples. Work began on the preparation of receiving the beach "Kydrak" international certificate. It is the only beach in Turkey, corresponding to a high standard of ISO.