Altinbesik Cave and Ormana Village Tour: Discover Taurus Mountains' Splendors
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37 Ratings
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Embark on the Altinbesik Cave and Ormana Village Tour to discover the splendors of the Taurus Mountains. Explore the stunning underground lake, experience traditional Turkish life, and enjoy picturesque landscapes.
Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Side - Your exploration begins in the morning, when our team members will pick you up from your hotel. You will travel towards

bradı city of Antalya with a comfortable bus. During the bus ride through Taurus Mountains there will be some stops for photos. Another stop will be made at a traditional coffee shop at a village.

What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Altınbeşik National Park Entrance Fee
  • Lunch
  • Inflatable Boat Tour in Altınbeşik Cave
  • Guiding Service
What's Not Included
  • Drinks
Additional Information

Join our tour of the Altınbesik Cave and Ormana Village to experience everything the Taurus Mountains have to offer! This engaging journey across the mountains includes a visit to the third largest underground lake in Europe. Besides this magnificent part of nature, the trip will allow you to delve into the local culture of the villages. The tour’s highlights include beautiful scenery, intriguing facts, and precious memories with your loved ones.

✅ Embark on a whole day’s exploration of the Turkish rural landscape.

✅ Immerse in the authentic Turkish lifestyle through an interaction with a local family.

✅ Discover the Side area’s natural beauty and pay a visit to Altinbesik Cave.

✅ With tour costs covering all entry fees, meals, and round-trip transportation, it offers great value for money.

Location
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Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Keithhc5051on
Mar 4, 2024
Great Experience - would highly recommend! - Great trip, the mountain passes and caves are stunning. The team do their best to take care of you, keep you entertained and makes for a lovely day. A big thank you to Denise, Jan and Elvis for the efforts you took to make this a great day out. Would highly recommend!
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Uroojq390
Nov 2, 2023
Amazing experience! - The view was amazing, the food was very nice. The service and tour guides were amazing, Ibrahim was very informative as well as friendly. The village was beautiful, and the locals were friendly. Would definitely recommend. I would recommend for families with children as well, there were some on our groups and they seemed to enjoy themselves as well.
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Lubov_l
Oct 31, 2023
Nice and interesting tour, great lunch at Ormana - Great tour really, beautiful cave with boat ride, very interesting Ormana Village, nice and tasty lunch at Ormana(way better than regular "included in the tour" meals. Recommended!
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T3840lbrobg
Oct 26, 2023
Things about Turkey I didn't know! - A very informative tour; the guide 'Johnny' was very knowledgeable and did a great job of explaining everything in multiple languages. Mete has been in contact before and after the trip to ensure everything has been clear and straightforward before the tour and that we were happy afterwards - I'd happily recommend to anyone visiting the area!
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R9443znbiancat
Aug 21, 2023
Great experience - Amazing experience, it was a great day we took many photos und learn so much about the culture. Great tour operator Mete
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Szilvia
Aug 15, 2023
Nice trip, thank You. - One point for travellers: buy things from and/or give your money to the really poor persons who need it - like the nomades at top of the mountains (was first stop) and a local family with small girl who sale lot of small things (spices, soap, local clothes, etc. ) after that we visited the school and a small mosque. 💚 About the trip: Take a big bottle of water with you, better. The road to there was a little bit scary for me because of the serpentine, however the view is beautiful. 💚 We went by a new safety Mercedes Sprinter van and the driver is excellent, was driven safety. Thank You! 💚 Launch was good. The cave a little bit short (15min), but really beautiful. You get some picture about the county life in Turkey. All together: it was a good trip, like it with my son. 😊
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Gabrielafa4341lc
Sep 27, 2023
Not so good experience - The view was nice but we chose an english speaking guide but we got german speaking one. We didn't understand a thing so we had to check info about places we visited on the internet.
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Gergely_o
Sep 25, 2023
Good start - very boring end -> not recommended - It took very long to pick up and drop off passengers at the hotels. Although I booked the activity with English guide everything was in German, only an English couple got some information in English but only privately and they got much less info than the much bigger German community. We do speak German but as a not native speakers it was difficult to understand the guide as he didn't open his mouth. The cave-lake was really nice (Altinbesik) but then we didn't go to Ormana as it was described in the program but to a boring much smaller ghost village. Here we saw some collapsed houses, then on a dangerous road (it was made by stones and difficult to walk on it) we went to see a kind of beton bunker which collect water, "very interesting"... We saw the silk road which was again "very interesting"... stones. I was missing Ormana, I saw pictures about it before the trip and it looks much more interesting and living than Sarihacilar, a boring abandoned village... The lunch was okay. The minaret we saw was small and not so interesting. Not recommended or at least not with this organiser (with other activity we had issues with them....)
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Luke
Sep 21, 2023
Not an English tour - The tour was lead by a German guide, it was a group of around 40 people with 3 guides, of the 3 guides 1 spoke a little English, as a couple we felt lost as the majority of speaking was in German, there was another English couple with us that felt the same. We felt like we were bolted onto a German tour. Guides were friendly, most of day spent on the bus, 2 hours from side to cave, hour from cave to village and 2 hours back to side. Cave was around 300m deep, was rowed in and rowed out with no information from rower regarding the cave, it is 3 euro if you go to caves directly, village was nice and felt authentic, food was also very good.
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647obianujue
Feb 22, 2024
Dishonest - If you don’t understand German, don’t bother going. You won’t be carried along and they won’t care. I’m guessing they wanted to cheap out and provided only a German guide, meanwhile tour says English and German. When I complained they said they have an English translator who was speaking German and turkish 95% of the time.
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