> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://damirissimo.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # My First Paragliding Flight over Ölüdeniz - URL: https://damirissimo.com/my-first-paragliding-experience/ - Published: 2024-01-03T07:33:52.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-09T20:30:39.000Z - Description: My first tandem paragliding flight from Babadağ over Ölüdeniz - photos, videos, clouds and a sun halo from the air. - Author: Damir - Tags: Travel ## The Gift This birthday was special. Those you don't forget. My wonderful Adelya ([@aduk.art](https://aduk.art/?ref=damirissimo.com)) gifted me an opportunity to fly in the skies. We visited this mountain a couple of times before, and even watched others taking the flight, discussing how cool it would be to jump ourselves and experience it. Well, I was gifted with this opportunity, which I now highly recommend to anyone, especially if you come around Babadağ mountain 🏔️ I wanted to keep those photos & videos somewhere, so let it be this place for you to see them too. The photographs begin on Babadağ with other canopies already moving above the sea. After takeoff, the ground opens into a map: Ölüdeniz beach, the curved sandbar of the Blue Lagoon, forested headlands and small boats in turquoise water. Seeing familiar places from that height made the flight feel much larger than the few minutes shown in each video clip. ![Paraglider flying above the sea and islands off Babadağ](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/1-b83426922a5db987.jpg) ![Pale rocky slopes and pine trees high on Babadağ Mountain](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/2-0667d2622103c636.jpg) ![Layered limestone ridge and distant mountains on Babadağ](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/3-b011a4dc344851ac.jpg) ![Mountain launch area and town seen through drifting cloud](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/4-a92f7c17707e77c3.jpg) ![Cloud wrapping around the forested slopes below Babadağ](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/5-8110c6b296c20f7f.jpg) ![Dense white cloud opening briefly over the rocky mountainside](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/6-bbb9d058a8f3b1d0.jpg) ![Aerial view of Ölüdeniz beach, town and blue lagoon](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/7-60a032f36bd2fdd7.jpg) ![Ölüdeniz shoreline and lagoon seen vertically from the air](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/8-b1326600e14db1ae.jpg) ![Long sandy beach and bright sea seen during the paragliding flight](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/9-727b4bd747a2e269.jpg) ![Ölüdeniz town and beach directly below the paraglider](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/10-14690d7785e50ff5.jpg) You might notice a nice film burn at the last photo. But it's just my leg 🦵😆 ![Rocky headland separating Ölüdeniz beach from the blue lagoon](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/11-775c07bafbd4340b.jpg) ![Curving sandbar and turquoise shallows of the Ölüdeniz Blue Lagoon](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/12-04b9c5f6bcc68f01.jpg) ![Forested coves and mountain ridges south of Ölüdeniz](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/13-a12449a4b6fcd4ac.jpg) ![Aerial view of the Blue Lagoon sandbar and anchored boats](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/14-04cddeac0eb9a889.jpg) ## Through the Clouds During our flight, we got to experience the best weather possible that day. One of the most memorable events was cruising through pure white fluffy clouds. Cloud changed the view every few seconds. One moment the coast was completely open below us; the next, the mountain vanished into white. The camera moved between wide aerial photographs and the action camera facing us, so the gallery records both the landscape and the ridiculous joy of hanging in the air with our feet in the frame. ![Tandem paragliding pair beneath an orange canopy against blue sky](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/15-d9b39f14eb09c026.jpg) ![Tandem paragliding pair above white cloud with the coast below](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/16-c412ee3cb061f2ce.jpg) ![Tandem paragliding pair posing above cloud and coastline](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/17-19b6576902980cc4.jpg) ![Passenger and tandem pilot flying beside a bank of white cloud](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/18-16e39b1edfe8ffbe.jpg) ![Tandem pair beneath the orange paraglider canopy in clear blue sky](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/19-c6d45d243b151699.jpg) ![Tandem paragliders gliding along the edge of a bright cloud](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/20-e314669e083933ff.jpg) ![Tandem pair above cloud with a faint circular halo below](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/21-cdd2f8295050b14e.jpg) ![Upward action-camera view of the tandem pair and orange canopy](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/22-1ca22ebfd1b9e43b.jpg) ![Tandem pair flying through broken white cloud](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/23-f417e0004def5c99.jpg) ![Paragliding passenger above the turquoise coast and steep mountains](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/24-f6e86024c462a272.jpg) ![Low-angle view of the tandem pair beneath the orange canopy](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/25-9fb5a0fae48a31a4.jpg) ![Tandem pair emerging from cloud during the flight](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/26-df13304f625e16af.jpg) Big thanks to [Hakan](https://www.instagram.com/hakanakdere48?ref=damirissimo.com) for this amazing experience. ![Cloud drifting across the rocky slope below Babadağ](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/6-bbb9d058a8f3b1d0.jpg) The repeated action-camera frames are intentional: they show how quickly the background changed as we crossed the edge of the cloud. Sea, mountain and white mist take turns behind the same two people and the same orange wing. ## Sun Halo Near the end of the flight, the cloud below briefly carried a circular halo around our shadow. It was much easier to see with the eye than to focus through a moving camera, which is why the final photographs are more about the cloud opening and closing over the mountain than a perfectly defined ring. ![Mountain vegetation partly hidden by pink-white cloud](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/27-b2259f3bfb373d5a.jpg) ![Rocky mountainside appearing through a gap in the cloud](https://img.damirissimo.com/ghost/2026/08/28-940839fbb45c50a9.jpg) We also got extremely lucky to witness sun halo during our flight, and our shadow casting perfectly inside its circle. Focusing on it was tricky while flying, and even these photos can't compare with what I got to experience there! Paragliding is weather-dependent. Fly with a licensed tandem pilot, follow the operator’s briefing, and check current conditions and official launch access before going up Babadağ. ## More from Turkey More from this trip: [Turkey Episodes #1: Fethiye, Muğla](https://damirissimo.com/turkey-episodes-1/). See all [Travel stories](https://damirissimo.com/t/travel/).