Paragliding or parasailing in Fethiye: which one are you looking for?
Visitors searching for a flight over Ölüdeniz often mix up two very different activities: paragliding and parasailing. Both put you in the air over beautiful water, but the experience, the height and the duration have little in common. Here is the difference in plain terms, so you book the one you actually want.
Parasailing: towed by a boat
In parasailing you wear a parachute-style canopy and are towed behind a speedboat, rising some tens of metres above the sea for a ride that typically lasts a few minutes. You are attached to the boat the whole time and land back on it. It is a beach activity: short, simple and close to the water.
Paragliding: free flight from a mountain
Paragliding is free flight. You launch from Babadağ at 1,700–1,900 metres with a pilot who controls a real wing, and glide over the Blue Lagoon and the coastline before landing on the beach. There is no boat and no rope: the wing flies on the air itself, and the view stretches from the lagoon to the mountains. If the photos that brought you to Ölüdeniz show tiny wings high above the lagoon — that is paragliding.
Which one is for you?
- You want a quick, low-altitude splash of fun at the beach — parasailing will do it; most beach operators in the region offer it.
- You want the signature Ölüdeniz experience — the mountain launch, the long glide, the lagoon from above — that is tandem paragliding, and it is what we do.
Flying with Airflow
Airflow Travels runs tandem paragliding flights from Babadağ with experienced tandem pilots, under a TÜRSAB licence, and only in suitable weather. No experience is needed — read how a tandem flight works, then send a booking request when your dates are set.