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Zakynthos Tour: Discover Cameo Island and Turtle Bay
4.1
100 Ratings
Zakinthos
Explore Zakynthos: Snorkel in Keri Caves, visit Turtle Island, and taste local delicacies at Aristeon eco olive oil press museum.
Explore Zakynthos: Snorkel in Keri Caves, visit Turtle Island, and taste local delicacies at Aristeon eco olive oil press museum.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Cameo Island - After a convenient pickup from your hotel, head to the small port of Agios Sostis on Zante’s southern shores where you will pass and take some amazing photos of the famous wooden bridge of Cameo, and explore this small idyllic wedding island, for a short swim or refreshment (There is a small extra charge of 5€ if you want to enter…
- Cameo Island - After a convenient pickup from your hotel, head to the small port of Agios Sostis on Zante’s southern shores where you will pass and take some amazing photos of the famous wooden bridge of Cameo, and explore this small idyllic wedding island, for a short swim or refreshment (There is a small extra charge of 5€ if you want to enter the island). You can also visit the small church that is built inside this peculiar rock formation and from which this port took its name.
- National Marine Park of Zakynthos - Next, board the glass-bottom boat sit comfortably, and enjoy the views around you. The captain will start immediately to look out for the turtles so get ready with your cameras. You will be informed when turtles are going to surface to breathe, or when they pass under the glass bottom of the boat.
- Marathonisi - We are heading to Marathonisi, known as Turtle Island, an exotic, green, and coincidentally turtle-shaped island. Enjoy an hour on the golden sandy beach where you can swim and snorkel.
- Keri Caves - Sailing towards Keri Caves, carved by time, tides, and wind. Follow the coastline, admiring the white beaches, rock arches, forested hills, and enormous limestone cliffs that fall into the sea. Pass through the famous rock arch, Kamara. We will stop for 20 minutes here, you can swim outside some amazing caves or snorkel admiring the sea life.
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Aristeon Ecological Olive Press - Our last stop is the Aristeon Olive Press Museum, where we will learn little things about olive trees and their products as we will enjoy a free tasting of local olives and traditional bread with different flavored extra virgin olive oils (most likely lemon, orange, and garlic).
After five hours spent in the sea and full of images and new experiences, you will be dropped off back at your accommodation.
What's Included
- Bottled water
- Olive oil tasting
- Entrance to Cameo Island
- Full insurance
- Boat ticket to Marathonisi island
- Bottled water
- Olive oil tasting
- Entrance to Cameo Island
- Full insurance
- Boat ticket to Marathonisi island
What's Not Included
- Food or drinks
- Towels, Sunscreen, Snorkelling equipment.
- Extra charge 25€/booking if your hotel is more than 10-20km from our office Lomvardou 20 Zakynthos
- Food or drinks
- Towels, Sunscreen, Snorkelling equipment.
- Extra charge 25€/booking if your hotel is more than 10-20km from our office Lomvardou 20 Zakynthos
Additional Information
This half-day tour offers 5 hours of wandering in the South part of Zakynthos where you can discover the wonderful Cameo Island and its wooden bridge. Join us in the turquoise waters of Laganas Bay, and experience visiting the area of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos. Marathonisi Island is one of the nesting beaches for the famous Careta Careta…
This half-day tour offers 5 hours of wandering in the South part of Zakynthos where you can discover the wonderful Cameo Island and its wooden bridge. Join us in the turquoise waters of Laganas Bay, and experience visiting the area of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos. Marathonisi Island is one of the nesting beaches for the famous Careta Careta turtles. Hop on a glass-bottom boat to explore the scenery around you and capture photos of these magnificent sea creatures. Snorkel, swim at the Keri caves, relax, and enjoy the sun at Turtle Island. The tour ends by visiting the Aristeon eco olive oil press museum to taste some local delicacies.
- There are no toilets on the boat or on Marathonisi Island. We will stop for the toilet before boarding the boat.
- There are many floating canteens on Marathonisi island, where you can buy snacks and refreshments.
- Please wear your swimming suit under your clothes. The places that you will visit on this tour include water interaction.
- Please note, that all our tours operate in (spoken) English. For any other languages please contact us to request written information.
Location
Dali Tours Zakynthos
Lomvardou
Our office is located in the center of Zakynthos in the same building as the Dali Luxury Rooms & Restaurant.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(100 Ratings)
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Georgiaeugenia_m
Oct 24, 2024
Really nice tour - The tour was amazing. Our tour guide Dimitri was great, as well as the boat driver Ayeio, they both made sure to show us as much as they could and even got to go into the caves a bit (safely) we got a chance to swim by the caves as well as swim relax on Marathonisi afterwords
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Zoe_r
Oct 2, 2024
This trip made my holiday. - Crystal clear turquoise sea, amazing view of the loggerhead turtles, lots of fish to see snorkelling. A must do trip.
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Kerrybirch1
Sep 20, 2024
Lovely experience - Lovely experience however we did not get to see a turtle. We swam in the sea near keri caves and then stopped off at turtle island. You can swim and snorkel there. A few places to get drinks and snacks was a lovely trip out.
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Claudel_r
Sep 2, 2024
Nice boat trip - Enjoyed the nice clear sea water an explored a lot of caves during the trip. We were lucky to see a turtle that dived up.
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Vamsi_k
Jul 29, 2024
Clear water Swim stops,Scenic views and turtle Spotting - Wonderful experience, spotted couple of turtles. Boat trip was really good and got swimming stops in clear waters. Would definitely recommend this trip.
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Richard_o
Jul 28, 2024
Great day out - We had a great experience and saw a number of turtles. Our skipper was great and the boat was comfortable. I would recommend to do.
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Isabelts9706wt
Sep 13, 2024
Enjoyable but there are much cheaper options available - Great trip, I didn't give 5* because we soon discovered there were much cheaper tours available! Still enjoyable and we got to see turtles.
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Thomas_ldd
Aug 10, 2024
WITHOUT HESITATION! - - beautiful half-day excursion from 12:00 to 17:00.
- concept of the amazing glass bottom boat.
Too bad no commented French translation in the boat and we did not see many turtles.
- thank you to the French commentator for her welcome:)
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Northstar28494943852
Aug 22, 2024
Great for couples, not for young kids - Guides were very good and helpful.
I wouldn’t reccomend this for a young family as it was a lot of waiting around and it did end quite a bit later than advertised. Kids were hungry and tired/hot.
The olive oil press museum was a bit of a waste as the tour group was so large, when standing at the back (as we were) we couldn’t hear a single thing.
Turtles and turtle island was really cool.
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Amanda_r
Sep 10, 2024
Stay away from these tours - I would highly recommend you do some research on the turtles and local attempts at conservation before going on ANY of the turtle spotting trips.
I didn't but having looked after wished I had.
Firstly nothing special about Kameo Island. Lump of rock that smells quite badly and is full of rude people.
The boat was over crowded immediately. This tour do not have their own boat but throw you on with whatever boat arrives first so it's very chaotic. The actual boat we went on was Pegasus Tours or something similar. Very overcrowded so you are skin to skin with strangers and can barely move. The boats hound the turtles getting way too close with at times 6 vessels surrounding one turtle. The engines are all still going putting the turtles at risk of injury from the blades. Such approaches also can stress the turtles to the point females can drop their eggs and suffer heart problems. These are endangered animals!
I have never felt so uncomfortable.
The captain was more interested in touching up the young girls he had next to them and even got them steering the boat. He had loud music on most of the time and really couldn't care less about the experience of the people on board. Swimming opportunities were short-lived.
The olive oil museum is free anyway and in such a large group you could hardly hear what the guide was saying.
When I challenged the guide as we got back on the coach around rules regarding how close boats can get to the turtles she avoided the question, tried to tell me they didn't follow the turtles and they actually approach the boat themselves! Wasn't the first bit of made up false information we were told.
I am making a report to the appropriate agencies regarding what I observed in relation to the turtles. When we got off the boat we saw one in the harbour anyway as did those snorkeling near by. A much more environmentally friendly and relaxing way to see them. I just googled Zakynthos sea turtles and found a wealth of information and guidance that the boats should adhere to which will help you make an informed decision.
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