Dalyan River Cruise: Sea Turtle Watching, Ancient Tombs Exploration, and Natural Mud Bath Experience
4.4
19 Ratings
Embark on a thrilling Dalyan River Cruise and experience sea turtle watching, ancient tombs exploration, and a natural mud bath. Join us for a full-day adventure with lunch included!
Duration: 15 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Taurus Mountains - Road to the Dalyan thru the Taurus Mountains
  • Dalyan Nehri - Boat tour on the Dalyan River
  • Lycian Rock Tombs - Seeing them from the boat
  • Iztuzu Beach - Free time in Iztuzu Beach
What's Included
  • Professional guide
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • All activities included
  • Lunch provided
What's Not Included
  • Drinks
  • Breakfast (available to purchase)
  • Grilled crabs
Additional Information

Embark on a journey in taxi boats across the River Dalyan. Stay on the lookout for the Caretta Caretta sea turtles and enjoy some barbecued blue crab. Visit the archaic city of Kaunos and witness its stone-carved tombs, followed by a rejuvenating dip in the mineral mud baths. Bask in the sun at the renowned Iztuzu Beach, a home to these enormous turtles. This is an all-inclusive day trip on the river, with lunch provided.

  • there are changing rooms both on the beach and by mud baths
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(19 Ratings)
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Kazwaz0211
Oct 10, 2023
Amazing trip - Amazing trip on the river bus. Loved Turtle Beach. Great facilities and amazing sea. Bar and food but no alcohol allowed
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Travel47334785398
Oct 20, 2022
They offer many great tours - A really lovely river trip. They do a few types of tours we did the turtles, diving and the mud baths. Food was, served on all which was delicious Highly recommended
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Orhan
Sep 23, 2019
I did it several times... - This price is unbelievable, it is so high... Just take a public transportation and come to Dalyan first. You will see that the prices for boat trips are much cheaper if you get it on the pier in Dalyan... I am travelling around the world and I never take a tour before arriving at the destination. I made boat trip in Dalyan several times since 1970s and always took the boat from the pier.
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Danyakh
Aug 14, 2019
Fantastic trip - I am rating the visit to Dalyan, the boat trip and the turtle beach. We spent a great day, the scenery is fabulous, and the turtle beach is definitely one of the best beaches we visited during our visit . We also did the mud bath, and it was a lot of fun, stinky and refreshing :-) We were a group of 9 adults and 7 kids, and the trip was entertaining for everyone. The canteen's food at turtle beach was great too, i had the sujuc toast and it was 😋. If we had been able to, we wouldve definitely done it again or even taken the water dolmus .
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Nen608707
Dec 17, 2018
Beyond expectations! - If you have an opportunity to take this full day tour DO IT! From all one day tours taken from Bodrum I expected almost nothing from this one. Well, some new sights ... but nothing spectacular. It turned to most enjoyable day of our vacation! Fantastic scenery, incredible sights, well organized river cruise, short beach break and above all: unforgettable spa experience! I skipped mud bath and (luckily!) opted for 30 minutes massage! Therapist (tall, middle aged man) had exceptional skills! Unfortunately our time was limited and absolute highlight of our tour was enjoyed in short version.
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Darren
Nov 4, 2018
Views, Mud and Turtles - Would strongly recommend. A calm and peaceful day out, with plenty of things to view and experience. Start off with a pleasant trip up to the mud baths (I couldn't smell sulphur), you walk into a pit full of mud (feels weird under your feet), but cover yourself with the mud, let it dry then wash off under the many showers. There are also a few hot water baths (ladies only, men only and a mixed). Back onto the boat and gently cruise down the Dalyan passing the Lycian Tombs, plenty of opportunity to take photos. Nice stop off for food with Chicken and Fish as options along with fresh salad, on the route down the Dalyan your guide will ask you if you fancy eating some blue crab for around £5. After filling your belly we then make our way down to where the fresh water and sea water mix at Dalyan beach. The beach is only accessed during the day 8am-8pm as the turtles take priority for the other 12 hours. The beach has a strip where the cages have been placed above a turtle nest, its lovely to see so many. After an hour an half of time on the beach you head back to the boat, if you ordered the blue crab it will be dished to you then, its very sweet and beautiful. (no wonder the turtles love it). If your lucky you will see a few turtles turn up for food as the guys on the boats tend to feed them. Then its a gentle cruise back up the river to the outskirts of Dalyan village to meet your bus.
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Pburns
May 3, 2024
Very good - Enjoyed our experience on the river cruise. 45 mins to get to destination 30 min break to see the beach and return. Saw many turtles in the river, also stunning views of the tombs. Value for money.
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Wafa
Aug 30, 2019
Mrs. wafa Hariri - Fantastic cruise. Heavenly beautiful scenery. The sea to the left side and the river on the right side. We passed by the Dolphin Park. It’s not easy to see the turtles, but we were lucky
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Abbad
Oct 14, 2019
Exhausting trip from Oludeniz. - To go to Dalyan from your hotel in Oludeniz proves to be exhausting and not so enjoyable. This is referred to the time wasting driving to that destination. Picked up from our hotel in Oludeniz at 8:am and started to stop at other hotels to pack the small mini bus feeling like you are out of enough oxygen inside. However, after more than hour we had to wait for a bigger bus which in turn proved to be lacking enough cold air due to the driver mood. The guide also was suffering from uninterrupted cough only to make you short of receiving valuable historic informations about the area and the its anient inhabitants and invaders. Lunch was average but not enough. Beer is purchased on the boat but never cold to enjoy. The beach was dirty on Marmaris side, and turtles are not seen by all tourists. The only happiness is to see the Lycians tombs while cruising the river. this site only makes an exhausting two hours drive worth the trip.
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Joseph
Aug 17, 2019
Dalyan trip - It was the worst activity we've done it in Marmaris. First they lied when we bought the tickets that there's turtles but there wasn't turtles on the beach and they said that turtles comes out only at night when no body there, whereas turtles in lebanon come out all day, they told us we will pass by dolphins island but there was no dolphins. 4 off us get sick from the food and they lied that we should order food before noon otherwise there will be no food at 5 pm however they were selling burgers when we went back to Marmaris. so it's not recommend at all we were on Barkas ship.
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