Alanya Highlights: Waterfalls, Cave & River Tour

Generel speaking, it was a okay trip. BUT, the guide could easy make it better by having more knowlige about the atractions as were visiting. For example in Sapadere Canyon, the distance from restaurant to the waterfall, we asked but he didnt know. Likevise the guide could make the bustrip better by telling about the landscape and remarkable things as passed under the driving. For exampel on the trip home, we passed a huge statue beside a flag on a hillside, but nobody knew why it stod there? By-by from Soren

Nice trip only the description as it says here on TripAdvisor is not correct. We were not picked up by a Jeep but a regular van and also there was no visit to the place known for silk production, and swimming was also not possible due to the strong current. The guide Anna was very friendly and had a lot of knowledge. Because of the price, the trip was still sufficient.

It was a tour with a lot of exciting impressions from the interior, where we would not otherwise have gotten there so quickly on foot; amazing views of Alanya and the mountains, from orchards along the way to an exciting gorge with mountain stream to the impressive stalactite cave... full porgram that I definitely wouldn't manage every day of our holiday, but on the 5 days of our stay that was a great fit to do this one tour with.

This is an experience for those that like to have adventure and unexpected fun. We never did make it to the silk experience.

After reading the description and itinerary we were expecting to drive up to Sapadere canyon, possibly with some information about the history/wildlife in the area, and then a visit to Sapadere village for info about silk production. Although the trip mentions Dim Cave in the info, this wasn't actually mentioned in the itinerary so we weren't sure what to expect. We got picked up back on time and taken to meet up the rest of the tour, where our guide explained we would be going to a small family restaurant and learn about pancake making, then to Goblin Cave (which you had to pay 150 lira per person to enter) and then on to the canyon. They also informed us at this point that waterfighting between the jeeps was traditional, and before we knew it we were absolutely soaked and firing water guns at each other as we overtook in every other lay-by on the way into the mountains. The first stop at the family pancake place would have been fine, if they hadn't started by turning a massive foam cannon on the crowd. Whilst we were trying to dry our clothes and people had pancakes, the tour guide approached and asked us to pay in advance for entry to the canyon. I explained we had paid for this already with our Viator booking, which got me a confused look. He explained everybody on the tour had to pay, as is was only another 150 lira each we agreed to save from an argument, however when I showed him the Viator booking email and tickets, he again looked confused and said we would sort it out later. Later never came. Goblin Cave was cool although not particularly big, absolutely no information was provided apart from that it was found about 7 years ago.. Sapadere Canyon was absolutely stunning and just about worth the 2-3 hours of messing around water fighting in the jeeps, however we only got to stay for an hour which was not really long enough to have a swim. Food in the family restaurant was simple but all very tasty. Who knows what happened to the Sapadere Silk production stuff, presumably it does happen but nobody mentioned it. We then got taken home, thankfully with no further water fights. To be clear, had we known what we were signing up for, we would probably still have gone. However we would have been fully kitted out in swim wear from the start and probably tried to book a separate tour for all of the nerdy local info. There were other tours who appeared to have go this memo and looked to be having a much better time. Our tour guide mentioned Get Your Guide several times and didnt know what Viator was, so I do wonder if Viator need to get some wires uncrossed and make sure they're advertising the right thing. Again, overall was not a bad day out, in fact it was great fun and I would highly recommend to anyone with kids, or who just wants to have a laugh and doesn't really care about the culture, history or wildlife near Alanya. However, if you're a nerdy couple who wanted a nice day out to learn about local culture, book something else.