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• Spectacular cave visit and Taurus mountain tour

  Annebella P,

  Jun 20, 2025

  - Viator

  5.00

  The tour began with a 8.45 minibus pick up from our hotel with a friendly and knowledgeable guide. My daughter and I were the only English people (there was also one Slovak) so the guide skilfully provided all info in German and in English. We stopped at a Manavgat service station to use the loos (there are few toilets in the mountains!) and got on the road out of the city. The guide told us all about the agriculture and wildlife in the region. The driver navigated us carefully around very steep roads and hairpin bends, even stopping to remove a baby tortoise from the road at one point. There were a few welcome stops for leg-stretches and photo-taking in the mountains on the long way to the cave. Once there, we donned hard hats and were taken around the illuminated underground lake on an inflatable dinghy, ten at a time, by a cheerful oarsman. The cave lake is truly unique: spectacular and unforgettable. We then travelled to Ormana village for an excellent buffet lunch, included in the price, which was fresh and delicious. The lunch place had a brilliant view - we bought ice creams and sat in the swing in their garden, then looked around the tiny village with its beautiful unique historic architecture (button houses). Our final stop was another village with a fascinating historic disused wooden mosque and abandoned school (there is now only one child in the village). We took tea there, served by the child’s family, who also have a small shop selling local herbs, oils, honey and trinkets and a small display of historic domestic items. The journey home was a speedy motorway route. The whole tour was 8 hours and great value for money. There was a great atmosphere throughout, thanks to our guide and driver. We saw a very different side to the region than we saw in the towns / hotel areas. Highly recommended tour! We learned a lot and we saw a lot of nature and history and we had a lot of fun. Thank you!

• Canny excursion:)

  Hope B,

  Apr 28, 2025

  - Viator

  5.00

  My partner and I had a great time. Umit the tour guide with very funny and knowledgeable. He translated the entire journey between English and German. Got a lot of great photos and really enjoyed the meal. There was a selection of food to choose from. The drinks however weren’t included and ranged from 1€ to about 5€. The driver didn’t speak any English and was referred to as ‘Turkish Schumacher’ 😂 id definitely recommend if you like learning a little about the area and the cave was just beautiful. Might be a bit boring for kids though.

• Adults might like it, but kids get bored.

  Giridhar M,

  Aug 9, 2024

  - Viator

  3.00

  The visit to Ormana Village was great and the food served was very good. The mountains were scenic. The cave visit was a good experience but very brief. It was a very hot day and the drive was very long. On the whole it was not worth spending a whole day stuck in a coach, to briefly visit the cave and the village. I would not go again.

• Nice and interesting tour, great lunch at Ormana

  Lubov L,

  Oct 31, 2023

  - Viator

  5.00

  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!

• Good start - very boring end -> not recommended

  Gergely O,

  Sep 25, 2023

  - Viator

  3.00

  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....)