Full Day Dalyan (Turtle Beach) From Bodrum
Description
With the Bodrum Dalyan tour, you can have a different experience on your holiday, enjoy the views of the Dalyan Lake and King Tombs with infantry boats, swim in the famous Iztuzu Beach (Turtle Beach), and reward yourself with the famous mud bath. Dalyan is a magnificent ancient city and popular holiday resort in Turkey, and it is located approximately 190 km southeast of Bodrum. It is also the meeting point of the sea and lake. Dalyan is famous for its unique nature, reeds, rock tombs, ancient city ruins, mud baths, thermal springs, and Turtle Beach, the breeding ground of sea turtles named Caretta Caretta. You can see these beauties by participating in our daily tours from Bodrum to Dalyan, and by doing a different activity on your Bodrum vacation.
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Itinerary
at between 05:30 – 06:50 Departure from your hotel in Bodrum (Pick-up time is changeable according to your hotel location.) 07:00 Departure from Bodrum then we will drive towards Dalyan
Gökova Bay is a world-famous yacht paradise. Here is one of the rare places where you can see the sun, oxygen, bird sounds, and clean water altogether. We will have the chance to have breakfast in a local restaurant in this beautiful bay. Here you can order food by paying an extra fee or eating the food you bring with you. As we finish our break, we leave here with private boats and begin our Dalyan River journey.
Köyceğiz - Köyceğiz is a wonderful rural town and region in Muğla surrounding the vast coastal Köyceğiz Lake that leads into Dalyan. Known for its honey, forest creeks, oriental sweet gum trees and thermal hot springs, Köyceğiz is the perfect day trip getaway
After travelling and getting hungry, we will set off for the expected lunch at the restaurant we booked before. When we arrive at the restaurant, you will enjoy the delicious open buffet lunch that will satisfy your eyes and stomach. Bon appetit to everyone
Caunos Tombs of the Kings - During the journey, you see the rock tombs of the Lycian Kings on the hill. The scenery is magnificent. While our professional guides give information about the Lycian Kings and rock tombs, you can photograph this historical scene to immortalize it. After spending enough time here, we continue our journey.
Mud bath Dalyan - As we come to the end of our tour, it's time to take the mud bath that we deserve in Dalyan's mud pools. You can refresh yourself in a hot mud bath, which is believed to be very healthy for the skin. Dalyan mud bath is known for its anti-ageing properties and for making your skin look young and smooth. After making our mud bath and taking our shower, we set off again to return to Bodrum. When we arrive at Bodrum, you will understand how well you made the right decision for the Bodrum Dalyan excursion.
Turtle Beach -Aka Turtle Beach-: It is our next stop on our Dalyan tour from Bodrum. Turtle Beach, also known as Iztuzu Beach, is the endangered Caretta Caretta turtles' natural habitat. If you are on your lucky day, you can see these turtles go ashore to lay their eggs. We will give you enough time to swim and walk around at this beautiful beach.
We will take you back yo your hotels after this wonderful day.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Pick-up times from the areas: Bodrum Center: 06:15am - Gümbet: 06:00am - Bitez: 05:15am - Ortakent: 06:00am - Torba: 06:30am - İçmeler: 06:00am - Bardakçı: 06:15am
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(9)
Day felt like a rushed money grab. The breakfast stop- Poorly organised. Us and other full coaches all have to stand in a huge queue for about 20 mins to get served at a roadside truck stop (Not what's advertised) . you then have to shove it down because you only have 10 mins left. I needed to use the loo after which meant I was 5 mins late for getting back on, and I got hit with a range of abuse from the guide and the bus driver and even was threatened that they would leave me to get a taxi next time. I wouldn't have been late if there was actually time to both eat and go to the toilet. So our day started off badly. They even had a go at my partner for me not being there. Incredibly rude. I was ready to apologise when rushing back, but after the way I was spoken to, I was just fuming. Mud Bath- We were taken to one that's not advertised on here. Was basically a muddy lukewarm paddling pool with dead bugs floating on top (Its outdoors so understandable, but still). you then have to panic rush to try and get off all the mud because everyone's now too nervous to be late. So you don't actually get to relax. Lunch- Was in a bare looking canteen not restaurant. Food itself was nothing special, I would have preferred to have brought a sandwich. Wasn't an open buffet lunch as advertised. We got a strange tasting soup (I think it was tomato? We couldnt work it out) and then we chose the spaghetti. Turtle Beach- Was the only highlight. Beach itself is nice. A couple of turtles swim around the dock because that's where tourists feed them but im not sure it was worth a full day's travel. Our guide was frankly, terrible. There were two of them, a Russian lady and the Turkish man. The Russian lady seemed brilliant for Russian speakers as she would go into so much detail for her guests in Russian. Our guide the Turkish man for us English speakers, couldn't be bothered. On one occasion when we were on the boats by the tombs, our boat with English speakers heard the Russian Lady talk in detail about interesting things like Indiana Jones movies being filmed there. Our guide mentioned none of that. One of the men even called him out on it and how rubbish he was. Would I suggest, not sure. If we had a different guide and just went straight to the beautiful boat tour to Turtle beach, I would have enjoyed it. Everything before just felt rushed.
Great Trip, good day and great food!! We booked with Sami lovely guy really nice great price too! Thank you!
Had a great day out with this company. Excellent service and great prices. Highly recommend using them. They go the extra mile!
Great day out with friends. Trip was well organised and transport was clean and safe. The tombs in the hillside were amazing to see from the riverboat and we enjoyed our time at Iztuzu beach which is really pretty to walk along. On the way back we were so lucky to see a turtle pop up for a crab from a fisherman. Best part of the day was the mud baths, good idea to wear dark swimwear. They promise you'll look 10 years younger, waiting for it to kick in!
Thank you soooo much! x x x x
Fantastic service , well organised day, it’s been something we have wanted to do for a long time, this company has gone above and beyond for us as a family - thank you again!
Very good experience, tour guide very informative and helpful, really nice food on the boat with great views, great day out would highly recommend
The boat trip was very good and the staff were amazing the food is also very good great views I would highly recommend
Great day trip out, great lunch included, Amazing views, lovely weather highly recommend doing this trip while In Bodrum
What a great day this was. We went by small boat over to have a Turkish Mud Bath grandkids had fun here getting muddy. Then a quick cold shower and relax in a nice warm bath could have stayed in there all day. After we sailed down to Turtle Beach whilst having a fantastic lunch. We passed through the tombs in the cliffs and we also saw 2 turtles swimming in the water plus flying fish. We spent over an hour on turtle beach looking for baby turtles but we didn’t see any but bot a problem as the beach was so lovely and clean and had a bar and there to get a drinkk and food if wanted. After that we sailed back to Dalyan where we were picked up by the mini bus and drove back to the hotel. The guide we had (Alfie) was very knowledgeable and made the day even more memorable with the history and myths he told us. If you want a good day out I would definitely recommend this trip. Thank you Sam for booking this for us
