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Sapanca and Masukiye Full-Day Tour: Experience Turkey Countryside and Scenery
3.4
5 Ratings
Kartepe
Experience the stunning countryside and scenery of Turkey on a full-day tour to Sapanca Lake, Masukiye, and Kartepe. Walk along the lake shore, visit a local village, enjoy a lunch by a waterfall, and hike a mountain.
Duration:
12 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Maşukiye - 08.15-08.30 We will pick you up from your hotel in Istanbul then we will drive to Maşukiye stop, which is known for its natural beauties, preferences such as village
- Mahmudiye - Mahmudiye is the place which are going to be visited for lunch close by the waterfalls with its incredible nature.
- Kartepe - Kartepe, which offers the opportunity to ski in the winter months, is one of our stops that can be visited with its natural beauty and clean air in the summer.You can watch the bird’s eye view of Sapanca Maşukiye from Camteras.
- Ormanya - This stop is Ormanya. FORESTRY Wildlife Park, which spreads over an area of 2 thousand decares, is the third largest natural habitat in the world and Europe’s largest natural habitat. All details have been carefully considered. ORMANYA, a world-class project in every aspect; It presents an original model combining the protection of natural life and touristic use. Considering all these features, FORESTRY has the potential to be the most important nature tourism destination in Turkey. Hobbit houses are among the places to be visited. Our trip in Ormanya, which includes various animal species, is free.
- Sapanca Lake - The last stop of our tour is Sapanca Lake. It will be good to have some rest by drinking tea and coffee on the shore of Sapanca Lake, which is known for its unique natural beauties. There are activity and amusement parks on the shore of Sapanca Lake for our guests with children. ATV tour can also be done along the lake shore. This stop, which has a unique view intertwined with nature, is indispensable.
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What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Professional guide
- National Park fees
- Lunch
- Air-conditioned vehicle
What's Not Included
- breakfast
Additional Information
Discover Turkey’s stunning countryside and scenery on a full-day tour to Sapanca Lake, Masukiye, and Kartepe from Istanbul, and experience the serenity of a beloved weekend retreat.
Walk along the picture-perfect lake shore, visit the Ormanya then get a glimpse of local life in the village of Masukiye. Enjoy an outdoor lunch by a shady waterfall, and hike Kartepe mountain with the option to join a ski lift tour before returning to the city.
Location
Maşukiye
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.4
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272irfanz
Dec 5, 2022
Quality service, amazing price - Can’t express the professionalism showed by the team at Old City Travels, Abdullatif was amazing and really broke down all the trips and what would be best to do as we were a family of 7. He looked after us with the prices and gave me and my family quality service at such a great price. Anyone that is thinking to come to istanbul and wants to experience the Turkish thrill, whether it’s going to places like supanca, the sophourus cruise for dinner, look no further. Thank you abdullatif for your hospitality, will definitely come back to istanbul and get everything done through you again.
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Yosra
Aug 3, 2022
Exciting and beautiful trip with nice scenery - This trip is not suitable for elderly as it is quite a long trip and if they dont participate in activities such as zip line and atv, they will simply be waiting for the group to until they finish.
Visited Sapanca lake.. it was quite hot .. took some good photos but dont expect much.. if you are going with friends it might be enjoyable to sit on one of the cafes and have an ice cream.
Masuyikia & muhamadiya towns were nice but waterfalls were small. We did the zip lining which was enjoyable.. and not too high so suitable for kids. Lunch was less than average.
The highlight of the trip was mount Kertepe were we did the atv tour and visited the glass terrace. Our tour guide Jumaa was very nice and took care of the whole group.
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Kristie_c
Jul 8, 2024
Very disappointing - The tour does not accommodate English speaking guests, so the entire tour we never knew where we were headed or what we were doing. The lunch service was deplorable. The food was nasty, the food handlers were unsanitary. There was hair in the food and the servers took discarded bread from previous guests table to add to the incoming guests baskets. The tour description is misleading and does not align with the many money hustling activity parks we attended instead of a getaway tour from Istanbul's busy streets.
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Sonia1231
May 16, 2024
Underwhelming - To be honest, you can do without visiting this place. Nothing is included other than the travel and lunch. There will be extra costs for zip line, cable car and quad bikes.
It was a long day with not much to do. If you do not fancy one of the above activities, you simply have to wait untill the others are done.
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Alfiya_k
Mar 27, 2024
Our experience - The tour experience was not the one we expected.
First of all, nobody contacted us beforehand. I had to reach out to the organization. I got a quick response that the pick-up time would be between 08:45 and 09:15 A.M. The pick-up time on the Viator was 08:30 A.M. On the tour morning, I texted the guide asking them to call us when they’d be there to pick us up. I got a voice message that the pick-up time was at 8 A.M. Later, another number texted me that we should be ready at 8:15 A.M.! I asked to postpone it to 08:30. It confused us and we had to leave the hotel in a hurry.
Secondly, we left the city only two hours after the pick-up. We were fine with that, though. However, the bus we were on was full of children, they were so noisy! We’ve got nothing against the tour guide but he spoke 99% of the time in Arabic. We picked the tour in English! I understand that we were among Arabic speakers and there were only three of us who spoke English. Anyway, seemed not fair.
They drove us to the places we didn’t expect to go, e.g., the amusement park and a shop. It was a waste of our time! We didn’t visit the observation deck like in the photo, and the place with ATVs was not like in the photo either.
Lunch was good, even though it was 5 P.M.
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