Activities in Mediterranean Coast
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12-Island Tour
Many travellers sign up for the 12-Island Tour, a boat trip around Fethiye Bay (Fethiye Körfezi). The boats usually stop at six islands and cruise by the rest. Some are booze-cruise-style tours so check you're getting what you want. Hotels and agencies sell tickets or you can negotiate a price with the boat companies around the tourist office at the marina.
The normal tour (Fethiye Körfezi) visits Yassıcalar (Flat Island) for a stop and a swim, then Tersane Island for a dip in the turquoise waters and a visit to the ruins, followed by Akvaryum (Aquarium) for lunch, a swim and a snorkel. Cennet Köü (Paradise Bay) is next for a dip, followed by Klopatra Hamamı (Cleopatra's…
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Bougainville Travel
A long-established English-Turkish tour operator with a solid reputation and much experience in organising any number of activities lasting a full day, including: canyoning (TL110); mountain biking (TL90); paragliding (TL210 for flights lasting 20 to 30 minutes); scuba diving (TL55 per dive including all equipment, TL80 for a first dive); and sea kayaking (TL70). They are also experts on Lycian Way trekking and designing tailor-made tours for all of Turkey.
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Excursion yachts
Excursion yachts tie up in the Roman harbour in Kaleiçi. Some trips go as far as Kemer, Phaselis, Olympos, Kale (Demre) and Kaş. You can take one-hour or two-hour trips or a six-hour voyage which visits the Lower Düden Falls, Gülf of Antalya islands and some beaches for a swim. It's a good idea to ask about lunch when comparing prices; there's a big difference between a sandwich and a three-course seafood feast. Also ask if alcoholic beverages are included.
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Ocean Yachting Travel Agency
Next to the tourist office, Ocean Yachting sells boat tickets and organises parasailing (TL180 for 45 minutes), day-long rafting trips (TL85) and half-day horse-riding excursions (TL50) along with lots of other water sports, including so-called blue voyages.
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Boat Trips
While Marmaris Bay dolmuş-boat day trips (TL30 to TL35) offer eye-opening views and inviting swimming holes, you can really take things further by hiring a yacht, together with your own group of friends, or with random new ones, which offers the pleasure of a 'blue voyage' down the coast. So many old salts advertise tours that their yachts are practically bumping and grinding into one another on the docks. Blue cruises offered by the long-established Yeşil Marmaris Travel and Yachting are recommended. As for the rest, compare prices, ask around and negotiate.
Yachts sail from May to October, departing between 9.30am and 10am and returning around 6pm to 6.30pm. Before…
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Dalyan Kooperatifi
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Armutalan Hamamı
The enormous, full-serve Armutalan Hamamı is behind the government hospital, off Datça Caddesi (2km west of the centre). After 6pm it's quietest, as the tour groups are gone. A free shuttle (Armutalan No 4) is near the new fountained square.
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Association for the Unity of Mankind
The Association for the Unity of Mankind is a yoga, meditation and aerobics studio offering different morning and evening classes daily, as well as classes in group meditation and arts and crafts. A weekly schedule is posted outside the front door. Yoga takes place on Thursdays only, from 10.30 to 11:30.
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Perge, Aspendos and Kursunlu Waterfalls
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Depart in the morning and visit Perge, the place where most of the statues that are on display in Antalya Museum were unearthed. An important city of ancient…Not LP reviewed
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Olympica Travel Agency
This place specialises in 'build your own activity packages' according to clients' time, interests and budget.
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Demre, Myra and Kekova
8 hours (Departs Antalya, Turkey)
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Depart Antalya and travel to Demre to visit the best examples of Lycian tombs at Myra and the Church of St. Nicholas the saint to whom is referred to as Santa…Not LP reviewed
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Deep Blue Dive Center
Deep Blue offers a three-day PADI open-water course (€240). Day excursions (€30) include two dives, equipment and lunch.
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tours
Many local operators organise tours to the ruins along the coast west of Alanya and to Anamur. Different tours include tours to Aspendos, Side and Manavgat or a village-visiting jeep safari into the Taurus Mountains.
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Balık Pazarı Hamamı
Kaleiçi is a great place to experience the joys of the traditional Turkish hamam (or `bath'), most notably at the 700-year-old Balık Pazarı Hamamı (Fish Market Bath) where a bath, a peeling, and a soap and oil massage costs TL40 (TL15 for a bath and scrub only). There are separate sections for men and women.
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Private Tour: Antalya City Sightseeing Tour
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A private half day city sightseeing tour is the perfect introduction to Antalya on the Mediterranean Sea, an area known as the Turquoise Coast. The highlights…Not LP reviewed
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Sefa Hamamı
The atmospheric Sefa Hamamı retains much of its 13th-century Seljuk architecture. A bath here costs TL18 and TL40 for the works. Men and women bathe separately.
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Almila Boat Cruise
Run by a Turkish-Australian couple, who own two superior boats and offer the popular 12-islands cruise. Numbers are limited to 10 people and the food has garnered good reports.
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Interyouth Hostel Tours
This tour from Marmaris, organises high-quality cruises on its own boat to Fethiye, stopping at the Dalyan mud baths and the 12 islands. Numbers are limited to 12 people.
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tour boats
Every day at around 10:30 tour boats leave from near Gazipaşa Caddesi for a six-hour voyage around the promontory, visiting several caves and Cleopatra's Beach.
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Butterfly Valley
Highly recommended are the boat tours that go to or include Butterfly Valley via Ölüdeniz and include walking, swimming and ruin-visiting.
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Dalyan Tour
The Dalyan Tour includes a shuttle to Dalyan, a tour of the lake, mud baths at Sultaniye, Dalyan town, tombs at Kaunos and beach at İztusu.
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Saklıkent Gorge Tour
The Saklıkent Gorge Tour, which includes the ruins at Tlos as well as walking, trout tickling and a trout lunch, is highly recommended.
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Olympos Yachting
Olympos-based outfit offers a four-day/three-night cruise direct from Olympos beach to Kaş.
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Golden Orange Film Festival
Antalya is famous for its Golden Orange Film Festival, held in late September or early October.
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Big Backpackers
A newish venture run from Ideal Pension in Fethiye and offers the Fethiye-Kale cruise.
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