Perge - Aspendos - Side Tour

Perge, Aspendos & Side Day Tour from Antalya

This full-day Antalya day tour is the perfect daily excursion for exploring the ancient region of Pamphylia on the Turkish Mediterranean coast. In a single day trip from Antalya you visit three of Turkey's greatest Greco-Roman cities — Perge, Aspendos and Side — and cool off at the beautiful Manavgat Waterfall, all with hotel pick-up and drop-off and a professional guide.

What you will visit on this daily excursion

• Perge Ancient City — once the capital of Pamphylia, famous for its long colonnaded main street, monumental Roman baths, the agora, the Hellenistic gate with its round towers and one of the largest stadiums of antiquity.
• Aspendos Theatre — the best-preserved Roman theatre in the world, built in the 2nd century AD and still used for concerts and festivals today; a masterpiece of acoustics that seats around 15,000 people.
• Side — a charming seaside town built among ancient ruins, with the seafront Temple of Apollo, a grand theatre, the agora and stunning Mediterranean sea views.
• Manavgat Waterfall — a wide, powerful waterfall on the Manavgat River set among tea gardens and pine forest, a refreshing natural stop before returning to Antalya.

Steeped in history, Perge was one of the most important cities of ancient Pamphylia and a centre of learning — the mathematician Apollonius of Perge lived here. Walking its marble streets you can still see the water channel that once ran down the centre of the colonnaded avenue, the Roman baths and the vast stadium. A short drive away, the Aspendos day trip highlight is its Roman theatre, so complete that its stage building and seating survive almost intact, making it the finest example of Roman theatre architecture in Asia Minor.

After a riverside lunch you continue to Side, where ancient temples and a Roman theatre sit right beside the sea, then to the Manavgat Waterfall for a relaxing break in nature. Guided in English and organised by Inca Tour, a TURSAB-licensed operator, this Perge Aspendos Side day tour is one of the most rewarding daily excursions from Antalya for lovers of history, archaeology and the Mediterranean coast. Prefer another language or a private departure? We can arrange this daily excursion as a private tour on request.