Aspendos Tour from Side with Ancient City and Waterfall

Aspendos Tour from Side with Ancient City and Waterfall

This guided day out sets off from the Side coast and ties three landmarks of ancient Pamphylia into one unhurried route. You leave mid-morning, spend the hours between marble colonnades, a Roman auditorium and a river gorge, and are back at your hotel by late afternoon. Travel, guiding, entrance tickets and a seated meal all sit inside the ticket price.

Side Ancient City and the Temple of Apollo

Because the day starts on the Side peninsula, the first site is only minutes from your hotel. Your guide leads you along the colonnaded main street past the agora and the old theatre district and tells how a modest harbour turned into one of the richest trading towns on this shore. The route closes at the Temple of Apollo and a handful of marble columns still hold their place right above the sea.

Lunch at a local restaurant

Midway through the route the group sits down to a proper meal at a restaurant used by the operator. The main course belongs to what you have already paid for, while drinks are ordered at the table and settled there. The stop is long enough to eat without rushing before the afternoon half begins.

The Roman theatre of Aspendos

For many travellers the Aspendos Theatre is the reason to book at all. Raised during the second century of our era, it keeps stage wall and vaulted galleries almost untouched and is widely counted as the finest surviving Roman theatre of Asia Minor. Your guide demonstrates the acoustics that carry an ordinary speaking voice from the orchestra floor to the topmost row of seats.

Manavgat Waterfall

The last stop swaps stone for moving water. The Manavgat spills off a broad low ledge and opens into a white curtain, while the terraces overhead keep their shade and run noticeably cooler than the open excavations. Walkways here are flat and short, which makes it a gentle close to a full day of sightseeing.

Transfers guiding and what your ticket covers

A professional guide remains with the group at every stop of the route and the whole day is driven in an air-conditioned vehicle. Pickup and drop-off at hotels across the Side resort area are part of the price, as are the entrance fees for all three sites and insurance cover.

One practical point worth repeating before you book: the 10:00 shown on this page is the moment the activity itself begins and not the moment your driver reaches your hotel. Collection happens ahead of it and the precise time reaches you as soon as the booking is confirmed, while the return after 16:00 moves with traffic and with the address you are staying at.