Babadag, the cone-shaped mountain that dominates the view south from Hisaronu, is the launch site for what is widely regarded as one of the finest tandem paragliding flights anywhere in the Mediterranean. A new gondola, opened in 2021, lifts pilots and passengers from a base station above Oludeniz up to the summit ridge in under twenty minutes — eliminating what used to be a long, dusty van ride up unpaved switchbacks. From the top, three terraced launch pads at different altitudes let pilots pick the right wind window through the day.
Tandem flights with a licensed pilot launch in long bursts from late morning until early evening; touchdown is on the Oludeniz public beach with the lagoon shimmering immediately to the right. Bookings can be made at any of the paragliding offices that line the main street in Hisaronu and Oludeniz, with the price varying with the launch altitude. The summit itself is worth the gondola ride even if you don't fly: the views west towards Rhodes and east along the Lycian coast are some of the best in southern Turkey, and there are now a couple of restaurants and a glass-floored viewing platform up top.