On the route
The Start of the Side Jeep Tour: From Your Hotel Gate to the Roman Bridge
The first part of the day is the least photographed and the most asked about. Here it is in order, from the hotel gate to the end of the asphalt.
Short answer
Your place is the main entrance gate of your hotel, at the time we sent the day before, in the morning after breakfast time. The jeep may collect other guests from hotels in the belt as well, then heads inland on ordinary roads to the old Roman bridge, which is the opening stop and the end of the asphalt. We call it the first hour loosely; the record gives no clock times or driving times for any of it.
At the gate
Be at the main entrance gate, not in the lobby, at the time in the day-before message. The fare is settled in euros when the jeep comes for you, with the team that collects you, so have it in hand rather than in the room safe. Wear the swimsuit under your clothes and put sun cream on before you leave the room; there is no good moment for either later.
The gate is also the moment to speak up before boarding. A back or neck problem, a pregnancy or limited mobility should already be in your notes; if it is not, tell the team now, and the operator decides whether you can travel.
Filling the jeep
A jeep seats eight to ten guests behind its professional driver, and your party may not fill it alone. So the jeep that collects you may call at other hotels in the belt before the day proper begins. Which hotels, in what order and how long that takes depends on the bookings for your date; no record holds it, and we do not publish a guess.
Who sits where is the operator's call. If people in your party should ride together, that belongs in the notes when you book, not in a negotiation at the kerb.
Inland, still on tarmac
Once everyone is aboard, the jeep leaves the coast behind and heads inland towards the Taurus foothills on ordinary roads. This is the calm stretch: no tracks yet, no crossings, and on a summer run nobody is throwing water. Use it to seal the phone, tighten the hat and stow anything loose, because the next part of the day will shake it out of you.
A guide is with the convoy for the whole day, working in English, German and Russian, plus Turkish.
The Roman bridge, where the day changes
Then the jeeps pull up at the old Roman bridge, the spot where tarmac turns to track. Everyone gets out, the convoy forms up, and from here it takes to the tracks: dry riverbeds, stream crossings and, in summer, the first water between the jeeps. In winter the same route runs in covered jeeps with no water games.
What the bridge itself is, and what we do not claim about it, is in the Roman bridge and aqueducts. What the tracks after it feel like is in the off-road part, and the rest of the day is in the day, stop by stop. To book it, start at the classic day.
