You can have daily tours or longer tours departing from Marmaris. Travel agencies have daily tours to Bozburun peninsula, Gökova Bay (Sedir Island), Ephesus, Pamukkale, Bodrum and Dalyan. You can join these tours or you can organize your own tour with your own vehicle and group. Our suggestions follow below.
Reaching the Çamlık pier with departure from various points of Marmaris. Sedir Island ( Cleopatra Beach) by boats from Çamlık. Travel agencies stop at the nearby cove and piers for swimming and lunch on the way there or on the way back. Among these cove and islands we can list İncekum, Fenerli Ada Cove, Yunus (Dolphin) Cove, Çanak Cove. While in Sedir Island you can swim in Cleopatra Beach and visit the ancient city of Kedrai.
Reaching the Çamlık pier with departures from various points of Marmaris. Departure by boats from Çamlık. Anchoring, swimming at the various coves at the bay, lunch is served on the boat. The anchored coves may change. Incekum, Fenerli Ada Cove, Yunus Cove, Çanak Cove.
Daily tours are organized to Bodrum by hydrofoil boats from the Çamlık pier departing in the morning returning in the evening. The visitors that are picked up from hotels around Marmaris, Armutalan and İçmeler pier near the Gökova bay. The hydrofoil boats leave at 09:30 am and reach the Bodrum 10:40. After a tour of down town Bodrum and some free time the boat leaves Bodrum at 16:30 to return to Marmaris at 18:00 pm.
Visitors that are picked up from various points in Marmaris between 08:30 – 09:30 join the tour programme including Datça, Reşadiye (old Datça ), Hayıt Bükü, Palamutbükü, Knidos, stop points may vary depending on the season (Like a swim stop between May and November). Food is included in the tour price.
Ephesus and Pamukkale tours are organized by the travel agencies are usually daily tours. Some tours comprise both Ephesus and Pamukkale spending the night in a hotel. The stopping points of the tour are, Ephesus ancient city, Holy Mary Church, Ephesus Museum, Pamukkale and Hierapolis. There are also other shopping points and breaks on the way.
Travel agencies organize daily tours to Dalyan. These tours are made by buses or minibuses. It takes 1.5 hours to arrive in Dalyan. Departing by boats from Dalyan, mud bathing, Kaunos ancient city tour, lunch break at the restaurants alongside the channel and a swimming break in İztuzu Beach (also famed as the egg laying are of caretta caretta sea turtles) are made. In the evening the tour returns back to Marmaris.
Travel agents have daily tours to settements and coves on the Turunç, Kumlubük and Bozburun Peninsula.
Varied tours including some of the above listed settlements, start with picking up guest from their hotels and participants join at certain points. The tours end in the evening. Tours including a tour of the area, shopping, and swim and eating stops are organized in all seasons. Turgut village is the common denominator of these tours with its carpet shops and waterfall. Sitting under a plane tree drinking ayran (yoghurt drink). Visiting the carpet and handicraft stalls in Turgut, cooling off in the ice cold water at the Turgut waterfalls. Walking in the forest, eating sac kavurma (roasted on a metal sheet). Gözleme or trout fish with an ice cold beer in country restaurants. Meeting the sunset in Selimiye or Bozburun, rolling up your trousers and walking on the sea in Orhanye Kızkumu. All make for unforgettable memories of these tours.