Perge, Aspendos and Side Tour in Antalya

• Lunch included
• Transfers included
• Entry fees included
• Guide included

Perge, Aspendos & Side Tour

Morning hotel pickup, guided visits to Perge, Aspendos, Side, and Lower Duden Waterfall with lunch, and return to Antalya.

1. 08:00

   Pick up from your Antalya hotel.

   Our team will pick you up from your Antalya hotel and transfer you toward the first archaeological stop of the day. Starting from Antalya central hotel areas keeps the route easy for travelers who want a culture-heavy day without managing transport on their own. Pickup time may vary according to hotel location.

   Pickup time may change according to hotel location.

2. Morning

   Meet your guide and begin the ancient cities route.

   Once the group is ready, your guide will connect the three sites into one historical story rather than three isolated stops. That matters because Perge, Aspendos, and Side each show a different face of classical southern Anatolia. Lunch is included during the program.

   Lunch is included during the tour.

3. Perge, Aspendos, Side, and Lower Duden Tour Route · 4 stops Perge -> Aspendos -> Side -> Lower Duden Waterfall
4. 1

   Perge Ancient City

   Perge was one of the most prosperous cities of Roman Pamphylia, and its layout shows a confident urban grid built to impress: a colonnaded main street that ran the full length of the city, a Hellenistic gate complex later flanked by a Roman triumphal arch, and a well-preserved bath complex that served both civic and social functions. Walking the main avenue, you can read Perge as a real working city rather than a single memorable monument. The guide uses the site plan to show how Roman engineers and local patrons shaped public space together, which gives the archaeology a human scale that photographs rarely convey.

5. 2

   Aspendos Ancient City

   Aspendos Theater is routinely listed among the best-preserved Roman theaters anywhere in the world, with its stage building still standing to nearly its full original height, a structural survival that most Roman theaters in Italy and North Africa cannot match. Built under Marcus Aurelius in the second century AD, the theater seated around 15,000 spectators and still hosts performances during the Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival each summer, proof that the acoustics remain exceptional. Standing in the cavea and looking toward the intact scaenae frons, most visitors feel the scale of Roman public life in a way that no museum exhibit can replicate.

6. 3

   Side Ancient City

   Side occupies a small peninsula that juts into the Mediterranean, which gave the ancient harbor city a strategic advantage and gives today's visitors a naturally photogenic backdrop for exploring ruins. The Temple of Apollo and the adjacent Temple of Athena stand near the peninsula tip, their columns silhouetted against open water in a scene that has become one of Turkey's most widely photographed ancient sites. Beyond the temples, the agora, a large nymphaeum, and the well-preserved city walls tell the fuller story of a port city that thrived through the Roman and Byzantine periods before the harbor finally silted over.

7. 4

   Lower Duden Waterfall

   Lower Duden Waterfall is one of Antalya's most scenic natural stops, where the Duden River drops from the cliffs directly into the Mediterranean. The visit adds a refreshing coastal viewpoint after the ancient cities route and gives the day a natural finale before returning to the hotel.

8. 18:00

   Return to Antalya and hotel drop-off.

   After the final visit at Lower Duden Waterfall, you will be transferred back to Antalya and dropped off at your hotel. This direct return keeps the cultural day easy from start to finish. Your ancient cities tour ends with hotel drop-off.

   This is a cultural route with no swimming or beach time built into the program.