The following excursions are the mostly offered ones at your vacation place. Some excursions, however, are not offered at every region in Antalya, for example the Manavgat river tour is not offered in the region Kemer. That has to do with the transfer times. In Addition it still to have some alternative excursions, as for example a donkey safari, Hamam tours, Turkish nights or excursions, etc. Besides you the possibility to go with a car hire according to Thermessos or Phaselis those ones are further very interesting ancient places near Antalya and Kemer. Here the descriptions of the essential excursions follows, the so-called classics.

Funny daily boat cruise

Daily Boat cruise

Do you have fancy for a restful day tour with a wood ship along the coast? Simply relaxing for a day? Then a day tour with one of the many Gulets is exactly what you need. The departure is from Alanya, Antalya, Kemer or Side, mostly from the ports. In the morning approx. by 10.00 o'clock it starts, the ship is back by 16:30 o'clock. Experience the beautiful Turkish coast from the water.

On the way you can swim in marvellous bays with crystal-clear water, snorkeling or angle. At noon there is from the ship kitchen a delicious food.

A beautiful excursion. In the case of own journey to the port costs the ride including lunches between 20 and 30 EURO (according to agency and your holiday region). Ask to your guide. Most cheaply is it, if you go in the morning directly to the port and negotiate with the boat owner himself. There you can make a good deal for aprox. 15 Euro per person.
 

A new cableway has started operating in 2007

A new attraction in Antalya is the aerial cableway on the Tahtali mountain near Kemer. It is the second longest aerial cableway of Europe and brings you up to 2.365 metres on the peak named "Tahtali" on the Toros mountains. There is the possibility also for alpine hikers of driving only a way and walking the other way.

Also an ideal starting place for Paraglider. Winter sportsmen also can ski above here between December and April. This project has planned many years and realized by an Swiss company.

Many travel agencies will offer an excursion on the Tahtali mountain. However, you also can buy the ticket for your journeys with the aerial cableway at the valley station, if you use a hire car. It is a fantastic view if one looks at the coast down from the mountain.
 

The bay of Antalya

The most beautiful view over the bay of Antalya

On the street to Antalya according to Kemer you see a building on a high mountain. It is the Magic Mount Hotel. You have from here the most beautiful view over the bay of Antalya.

In the case of good view you can almost look up to Side. This ride you can do only onto your own fist with the car hire or taxi. If you ar in good condition, you can work up to the hill of the mountain.

A jeep-safari to the mountains

The some other kind of an excursion, however nevertheless an experience, a jeep safari will be for you. On dusty runways through the Toros-mountains this tour leads. They discover in this case things which you would not have found alone. Who wants can take the steering wheel even into the hand. Under the care of a leader you go, down to the last cedar forests, in a small convoy into the mountains. In the proximity of a mountain village there is a lunch, some jeep-tours do a beautiful picnic with grill on the way.

Adventure - Jeepsafari

Turkey pure and unique natural landscapes skin-near, that is the jeep safari. From the different vacation places tours with different routes lead to the mountains. A necessity for friends of the nature and the adventure. Who is clever from you attempts in one of the most front cars to go. The last ones swallow dust without end and look corresponding at the end of the tour.

Taking along a headgear in any case please! The sun is very strong, the jeeps are open.

Absolutely stick to the instructions of your tour tour-leader and no risky maneuvers do in the  mountains. Finally you are supposed to return healthy and recovers from your vacation.

Onto the steering wheel should put only responsible drivers with sufficing going-practice and experience. The prices for the unforgettable pleasure catch at 20 euro p.P. at and goes up to 40 euro. The higher price does not guarantee any better jeepsafari, the tours almost have all the same route. Offers these excursions of your guide and near many small excursion agencies at your vacation place become. Here it is as is generally known a little more economical.

Adventure - River rafting

River Rafting on the Köprülü river

They are fetched by the hotel with a bus and go approx. hours 1½ by bus directly to the start, at the Köprülü-River in  Beskonak. Here you are prepared for your imminent Rafting tour by specialists well and instructed. Safety is written in a large way, therefore all participants get a helmet and a life jacket. Then it starts.

With a practised boat leader and a secure rubber boat it goes approx. 12 km down the big river. Over stones and rapids all participants must "paddle" well so that you and the boat come well down the river. On the way a tracing is inserted. There is a lunch, mostly it is a grilled fresh trout. A beautiful experience day you expect.

Almost all local agencies offer this excursion off 20 Euro at. They can do this tour directly also directly at the start in Beskonak at one of the many local travel-agencies. (Picture: Ministry of Tourism)

Journey to Pamukkale

Pamukkale is one of the biggest sights of the nature that is to be seen in Turkey (mentioned also the "cotton castle"). From a source lime containing and 35 degrees hot is liberated by lime cooling, that in the course of of a lot of years has covered a whole slope. The twinkling and snow-white "bathtubs" of Pamukkale arose from that.

On the way, mostly in Korkuteli, some small tea tracings are inserted. One visits also a mosque mostly. This excursion is offered in the winter half-year also 2-daily with 1 stop over in a top Thermal hotel.

Already in Denizli you see the white slope of Pamukkale. During the 2-day long tour you go among other things also to the Semi-Amphi Theater, Anatoliens largest Nekropolis, the Domitlanstor and street at Hierapolis.

On the return a short stop is done -with Carpet show- in a carpet village that lies in one of the most important tying-centers of Turkey. The prices for this excursion begin at 25 euro p.P. Reference: you consider, that the distance is approx. 320 km to Pamukkale and that go and back of each 3-4 hours takes. It is in the midsummer's a strain, to do this excursion only on a day.

Horses of the Bagana ranch

Horse-back riding on a ranch

North of Antalya -on the street according to Korkuteli- there is the Bagana Ranch with Accommodation. It is a very well-kept riding-stable with a very good selection of extremely well kept riding-horses. Here you can go as desired on excursions into the ground or at the Longe You will be surprised, which perfection you there expected! Some riding-stable can still learn something here!

Riding-friends come here to your costs best. Tel.: 4252270. The riding-hour begins at approx. 20 Euro. For the holiday-makers in Kemer offers to ride the also very well-kept Erdeniz ranch and hotel (directly behind Kemer) also the possibility and to stay the night.

You should want to do an excursion there, you take a taxi best, or call on the ranch. For smaller groups there is a free fetching-service of your hotel. After the riding you can take in the pool a refreshing bath from the ranch.

The ancient cities Perge and Aspendos

The classic absolutely. During this day ride you and other see the ancient city Perge. It lies on the fringe of the coast tier of Antalya. The ruins of the city gate and the Agora are well preserved. This place, just the same as Aspendos, was in the time of 2.Jh.v.Chr. to 395 n.Chr. a center of the roman culture in Pamphylien.
 

The ancient theater of Aspendos is regarded as one of the best preserved ones of his kind. Today still there are here concerts of famous singers as Pavarotti and Carreras. The unique acoustics moves the professional world today still into astonishment. Up to 20.000 people found formerly place in the theater of Aspendos.

Every year the great Aspendos-festival is organized. Many concerts, operas, Baletts and operettas are performed. You should experience that absolutely once if you should have the luck in your vacation for this splendid festival in Antalya be. An unforgettable experience becomes for you. The agencies offer Tickets for that including organized group journeys from the hotel.

Your agency will have this excursion for you in the program. However, you can reach these places also very well with the car hire. The ancient places are on the route of Antalya in the direction of Side.

Musician on a village wedding

A people and village tour

The excursion leads you to the villages and to the mountain range except a height-level of 1.800 mtr. They will see different villages and have insight view into the everyday life life of the local population. A very interesting day queues onto those ones of you that are interested also in the life in the Turkey "outside of" hotel beaches. Enjoy the cordiality and the hospitality that becomes to you.

In a typical mountain restaurant in landschaftlich charm-full environment you get your lunch and will visit then a mosque. In addition you go to an old village house.

The return moves different mountain villages past through the marvellously beautiful landscape of  the Toros mountains to the starting point back. The prices for such a tour are about 30 Euro per Person.

Istanbul - the world metropolis

"Who drank water once at the Bosporus always becomes after that dursten!"

Already 2.500 years ago the city was so known, that one only eis to call ten polin into the city needed and every body knew what was meant. Who goes today to Istambul, that one can amble over the greatest bazaar of the world. In the businesses silver, gold and bright carpets lie. Where foods are sold, mountains pile up from fresh fruit and vegetable.

On the inspection program also the Hagia Sofia, one of the most important churches of the world, is. Already Konstantin the large one let to build a basilica here. After the roman emperor the city called of approx. 330 A.C. to 1930 A.C. Konstantinopel.

When the Mohammedan Turks conquered Konstantinopel, they turned the Hagia Sofia into a mosque. The dome is in the diameter 35 mtr. and the height-level is 55 mtr.

A further climax of the inspection is the Blue mosque whose tiles make the interior appear in an azure way.

They see also the Topkapi Palast, once the sultan palace. Every sultan added new buildings so that a royal city arose. With mosques, bathing-houses, schools, libraries, pavilions and their harem.

This day excursion is carried on that one with the airplanes of Turkish Airlines or privat airlines..

They experience the climaxes of Istambul at a great sightseeing tour, the gate to Orient. Formerly the Byzantium city was called and after that, until this century also Konstantinopel. Let yourself be impressed from the mercurial life and the driving of the people in a city which is populated by approx. 15 million people.

You should have the occasion, you absolutely go to one of the big shopping-centers, as for example AK Merkez or Galeria in Atakoey next to the Ataköy Marina. The offer and that perfect tense ion is so overwhelming, as in New York, Paris or London.

Let yourself be caught from the oriental Flair of this metropolis. This excursion costs approx. 150 euro p.P.

Boat tour at Manavgat river

Manavgat river tour

The transfer occurs as at every excursion from the hotel. At the small rapids of the Manavgat river one does a small tea tracing mostly first. After that you climb in the place Manavgat, the wood boat typical for this area and sailes to the delta of the river with the same name, where you can also swim. The ride goes approx. 2-hours. Experience the marvellous green of the landscape. Sometimes one can see also water turtles. At the end you visit the waterfalls Manavgat.

Mostly a superfun with belly dance competition on the boat. And according to pleasure and mood of  the participants possible "water battle" follows, at which does not stay to any dryly. There are lunch on the boat.

The prices are per person approx. 25 Euro, if you book near your agency. Alternative for this purpose you can negotiate directly Manavgat your price directly at the boat.

The sunken city Kekova, roch graves of Myra and curch of Santa Claus in Demre This tour goes with a boat through the sunken city Kekova, and to the church of the holy Santa Claus in Demre and visit the rock graves and the amphitheater of Myra. The mixture between ancient and nature and landscape does this excursion very interestingly and unforgettably.

The route by bus up to there, is hemmed from a marvellous landscape. To the place Finike you see hidden, marvellous bays which will appear to you as from the picture book. A very beautiful day excursion to interesting and very sight-worth places.

You do not forget you, to take along your bathing-utensils and photograph and/or video camera. The prices for this marvellous excursion are including lunches near about 30 euro p. person.

A more-daily excursion to Cappadocia (Kappadokia)

This ride can become the climax of your Turkey journey. They come through a field, that both of the landscape one, than also from the historical side unforgettable impressions supplies. Against afternoon you arrive in Konya, the former capital of the Seldshuks empire and seat of the Mevlana order.

Dervishes were a group of strongly mystically based Muhammadans with whom a dance driven up to the ecstasy played a big role. (Dance of the dervishes). Still today the founder of the order "Mevlana"  enjoys very great recognition.

On the way, at the lake of Beysehir can you a wood mosque from the 13 Century A.C. visit. They go to the sepulcher Mevlanas and see in the former cloister gilded Korans, valuable handwritings and carpets. The caravanserai Sultanhani will be also a destination of this tour. Supper and overnight stay for example in Nevsehir in Cappadocia.

Strange, more remembering onto a moon landscape, that is Cappadocia (Kappadokia) with things and formations of tender tufa. Mostly the inspection of the underground city Kaymakli occurs. In Goereme, climax of Cappadocia (Kappadokia), you can visit the free light museum, where the frescoes lead to an enchanting atmosphere of the Christian world in the churches. Through the forests of  Akseki it decreases to the holiday resort.

You do not forget, to take along your bathing-utensils and photograph and/or video camera.