City of Side, Boat Tour on the Manavgat River w/ Bazaar Trip

River Quad Safari

Take a day cruise on the Manavgat River from Side, with hotel pickup and drop-off. Make stops to swim, see the Manavgat waterfall, and visit a Turkish market, then enjoy lunch served on board.

Manavgat Bazaar

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For the boat tour, we pick up our guests from their hotels with our comfortable buses between 08:30 and 09:30 from the side area. After picking up all our guests from their hotels, our bus will bring you to our pier by the Manavgat river. Along the way you will enjoy the beautiful view of the forest until you reach our dock. Half an hour after being picked up from your hotel, the bus will arrive at the pier. You will be greeted by our friendly staff on the boat. Our boat has three floors. On the first floor, we have a bar where you can buy drinks, comfortable seating groups and 10 showers at the back of the boat. Below the first floor we have 15 restrooms and also changing cabins, on the second floor we have another bar, comfortable seating and a dance floor. On the third floor, we have a sun terrace where you can enjoy sunbathing. All our guests will reach the boat within 20 minutes after getting on the boat and our tour will begin. When our tour starts, our professional English, German and Russian speaking guide will inform you about our boat and tour program. After our tour starts, we will go to the Manavgat strait, where the river meets the sea. After departing from the dock, we will reach the strait in 35-40 minutes. Along the Tol, you can see the shipyards, trout farms, the Taurus mountains and the Manavgat football stadium. We will have a chance to see turtles on the river bank. During the trip, our guide will take the reservations of our guests who want to see the Manavgat waterfall. When we come to the Bosphorus, we will moor our boat to our pier and take our first swimming break. The name of the place where we stopped for a swimming break is Cennet Beach. Here, the emerald green water of the Manavgat river meets the blue waters of the Mediterranean. This is one of the rare beaches in the world where you can swim in both toth suds and salt water, you can enjoy swimming, sunbathing or riding a jetski (jetski extra) during our one hour swimming break. If you are hungry, you can buy delicious pancakes made by the ladies of the region. While you enjoy swimming on the beach, our kitchen team will grill fresh trout and chicken for lunch and prepare the buffet. When you return to the boat, you can have your lunch from the buffet. After lunch, our return journey to manavgat will begin. After a 30-minute river cruise, we will dock at our Manavgat pier. Here, our vehicles will take our guests who have made a waterfall reservation to the Manavgat waterfall, and our other guests to the Manavgat bazaar, the largest market in the region. Our guide will inform you of the meeting place and meeting time in the market. We will take a 2.5 hour break at the market. Our guests who go to the waterfall will also have their guardians in the market for 1.5 hours. After free time in the market, we will return to our hotels by bus when all guests arrive at the meeting place. All our guests will arrive at their hotels.