Demre St Nicholas, Myra, Kekova Sunken City Boat Tour
Description
One of the holiest churches for Christians, the Church of Santa Claus, is where we begin our trip. following allowing our visitors some free time to purchase following our tour at the local icon store, we travel to the historic city of Myra. Then we arrive at our boat, which is waiting for us at ayaz Port. We stop for our first swim in Gökkaya Bay after a short journey and then eat our packed meal. After lunch, we stop at Aquarium Bay for a swim and visit Tersane Bay, one of Kekova Island's historic bays. We dock our boat at Simena Castle (Kale Köy) see the submerged city and give our visitors an hour of free time here. You can stroll to the sarcophagus (rock) tombs on land or in the water, tour the settlement, and visit the old Simena Castle in your spare time. Don't forget to sample the locals' world-famous homemade ice cream. Following this stop at Simena Castle, we take our final swimming break of 30 minutes in the Üçaz Straits before wrapping up our tour.
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Itinerary
we travel a short distance to tour the ruins, amphitheatre, and famous graves of the ancient city of Myra, the former capital of the powerful Lycian Federation - greatly admired by the Greeks as being the first known ‘democratic union!’
The Basilica of St. Nicholas, in nearby Demre, the home city of “Father Christmas!” The Church is greatly reverred in Orthodox Christianity and many Icons are available in local shops.
Kekova Bay is the Mediterranean's ''hidden pearl,'' and a boat ride to the isolated island of Kekova will show the remnants of the old sunken-city, which collapsed into the water after an earthquake in the 2nd century AD.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
A schedule for passenger pickup will be made accessible between 6 and 9 PM the day before the tour. We will contact you for the pick up information, please be patient.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(2)
The guide was extremely knowledgeable and friendly and the boat trip and visit to Myra was exceptional. However the itinerary mentioned here does not match my experience, there was no visit to Simena Castle and only one swim stop not two as described above. My tour date was also cancelled and rebooked for the following day at the last minute due to ‘weather’, however when I did the tour the following day I was informed by our guide and also the boat crew that they indeed went ahead the previous day, and the weather was not bad (rained for a total of 5min in the late afternoon). I asked the your operator regarding this discrepancy but did not receive a good response. The pick up/drop off process via all hotels also took over 2 hours each way (4hrs + travel time to and from the start of the tour) therefore making this an extremely long day in a mini bus.
Dear Brigida, Thank you for your feedback on your recent experience. We apologize for the discrepancies in the itinerary and the inconvenience caused by the tour cancellation and rescheduling. The tour did not operate the day that we cancelled your booking as told earlier. The boats work with a variety of companies and they meant that they went ahead with another company. We do not risk neither the joy and nor the safety of our passengers, so we did not operate the tour that day. We appreciate your understanding and will address the issues mentioned to improve our services in the future. Best regards,
Trip interesting would have been better if we hadn’t been the only English couple out of the twelve only Russia spoken. The guide did her best to explain to us in English after each place which did help and full marks to her for that. It’s no fun not understanding what’s going on when those that do have no sense of compassion or manners when it comes to breakfast or lunch no concept of queues
