Bodrum City Trip Overview
Delve deep into the countryside of the Bodrum Peninsula on a full-day tour by jeep! As a local guide drives the open-top 4×4 vehicle, sit back and enjoy the scenery, discovering shaded forests, sun-blessed bays and craggy mountains. Pass through the villages of Ciftlikkoy, Mumcular where traditional Turkish life still lingers; enjoy a lunch and swimming break in Mazi; and go off-road in the forests that surround Bodrum.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Bodrum City, Turkey
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Bodrum City, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey
Delve deep into the countryside of the Bodrum Peninsula on a full-day tour by jeep! As a local guide drives the open-top 4×4 vehicle, sit back and enjoy the scenery, discovering shaded forests, sun-blessed bays and craggy mountains. Pass through the villages of Ciftlikkoy, Mumcular where traditional Turkish life still lingers; enjoy a lunch and swimming break in Mazi; and go off-road in the forests that surround Bodrum.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Bodrum City, Bodrum City, Bodrum District, Mugla Province, Turkish Aegean Coast
The tours mostly start early in the morning. You’ll be picked up from your hotel and than join the group of adventure lovers and start your trip on a 4×4 vehicle.
You’ll have a wonderful trip through the tracks of the Bodrum Peninsula, climb over rugged roads to the highest point of the peninsula, while you’ll pass through the outstanding landscape of pine forests with countryside views.
Duration: 3 hours
Pass By: Çiftlikköy, Yalı, 48401 Bodrum/Muğla, Turkey
Our next stop is Ciftlikkoy which is one of the histroical villages in Bodrum. When we’re passthrough this wonderful village which reflects the Turkish traditional life, you’ll admire it the most.
Pass By: Mumcular, 48400 Bodrum/Muğla, Turkey
Later we’ll pass through Mumcular. Mumcular has large fields for agriculture and the distance from Bodrum is 31 kms and 28 kms to the Milas-Bodrum airport. According to the 2013 census Mumcular has a population of 3470 and the locals are mainly working in agriculture and animal husbandry. This area is also called by locals as “Karaova” (meaning dark lowlands) as the famers used to produce pine honey and candle wax to produce candles. The main produce of the farmers in this area is olives and olive oils also incomes are supplemented by weaving mills which are quite famous in Turkey and Europe. Both local and foreign visitors frequently visit these mills by day trips and also breakfast bars in which they taste olives and olive products.
Stop At: Mazi, Mazıköy, 48440 Bodrum/Muğla, Turkey
Before we head back to Bodrum and transfer you to your hotels we’ll have a delicious lunch and swimming break in the Mazı Village. Mazi village on Gokova shores was built on higher grounds so as to not to be seen by pirates and thus avoid their attacks. The main income of the village is carpet making. In all houses you can see a workbench at which sits a girl rapidly and enthusiastically weaving the Milas style carpets in colors of cream, brown and yellow. For those that have an interested in carpet making, if you come across it, we advise them to watch the wool used in the carpet being dyed using herbal roots in a boiling cauldron.
Duration: 3 hours
