Dalyan - Mud Bath - Turtle Beach

We drive through pine and frankincense forests along the most spectacular scenery of the Taurus chain of mountains on one side, and the  Mediterranean coast on the other. After approximately an hour and fifteen minutes bus journey, we’re in Dalyan to board our river boats. Then a cruise along the maze of channels which join the nearby freshwater lake Köyceğiz and the Mediterranean. Being a natural and massive fish farm, Dalyan is home to a great many species of birds, fish and amphibians (egrets,  kingfishers, silver mullets, bream, sea bass, turtles, blue crabs etc.). First, we visit the SULTANİYE SPA and mudbaths on the lake. It’s the oldest and the best in the area. The mud and the sulphurous springs with an ideal temperature and mineralistic composition have been serving as rejuvenating ( cut ten years off our ages! ), beautifying ( not that any of the ladies need it! ), and therapeutic natural agents for thousands of years. After lunch at our restaurant on the waterfront back in the village, we sail downriver along the antique city CAUNOS, which is especially famed for the Ionic temple-like tombs of the kings in Lycian style dating back to the 7th century BC. Then it’s time for a swim break on the DALYAN TURTLE BEACH which has been listed as one of the world’s best ten. Keep cameras handy cause this might be your chance to picture a CARETTA ie loggerhead, a gigantic marine turtle breeding in the area for 95 million years. PIONEER TRAVEL  gives full satisfaction guarantee…

* On our Dalyan tour we do not stop any Gold or Carpet Factory.