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Self-guided bicycle tour Rhodes and Turkey2024
Travel code: DRFT214I
Tour type: Biking
Travel type: Self-guided trekking
Area: Rhodes-Turkey
Number of days: 15
Tour description

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The first week you’ll discover the Greek island Rhodes. The landscape is amazingly green and the sea is really as blue as the pictures show you. The tours go along the sea and through the hilly inland and almost all culture-historical places of interest are on route.

After a week you’ll sail by fast hydrofoil to Fethiye on the Turkish coast. In this second week you’ll make a wonderful tour along cosy harbour villages in south-west Turkey. You’ll discover the ancient culture of the Lycian and Karian coast.

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The hiking/bicycle routes
Most routes lead by paved roads with very little traffic. Some unpaved stretches, which are easily accessable with the hybrid bikes.

General tour information
The tour starts on the Greek island Rhodes, island of the sun god Helios. In Rhodes Town you walk right into the Middle Ages: the impressive city from the time of the Crusaders is particularly well restaured. The first full day you may choose between an excursion to the picturesque islet Symi or a walk around Rhodes Town. On Symi you’ll visit both the Panormitis monastery in the south as the photogenic main town in the north. Sportsmen bring their bike to cycle back from south to north.
You proceed to the east coast of Rhodes. Besides the golden beach of Afandou, the Turkish baths of Kalithea and the Tsambika monastery are the highlights of this bike tour, before the owner of the family hotel in Archangellos takes you under her wings. You’ll visit Lindos either by bike or public bus. This famous white village is splendidly situated on a double bay.
Embonas is the next destination, the wine village of Rhodes, situated on the slopes of the Ataviros mountain. You’ll find several free wine tastings. Past the castle of Kritinia you’ll cycle to Kalavarda on a marvellous biking route directly along the uninhabited coast. Kalavarda is a quiet village on the west coast, close to the historic village Kamiros. The last Greek route takes you along the butterfly valley Petaloudes.
The next day you’ll be taken to the ferry port of Rhodes and you sail by hydrofoil to Fethiye. You’ll be met at the harbour and taken to your hotel.

The second part of you bike trip leads through southwest Turkey. The first 3 days you’ll stay in the cosy and typically Turkish harbour village Fethiye. Fethiye is alive summer and winter alike and is mostly known with the Turks themselves. It’s situated at a beautiful bay, surrounded by the foothills of the Taurus mountains and offers a local bazar with all kinds of little shops. From here you’ll make a couple of splendid hiking tours.
You’ll proceed from Göcek through a mostly flat area on quite roads along pomegranate orchards to the lively Dalyan. The river delta near Dalyan is protected nature area known for the Caretta caretta sea terrapins who deposit their eggs on Iztuzu beach.
The last days of the Turkish part of the tour you’ll bike round the lake and stay overnight in Köycegiz, with view on the lake, and Dalyan. Then you’ll be transferred to Dalaman airport for your return flight.