Belek to Salda Lake Transfer & Day Trip
170 km, about 2 hours 20 minutes each way, private car from €150 — Turkey's turquoise crater lake.
Salda is the lake everyone is talking about — a deep turquoise crater lake ringed by dazzling white beaches of soft hydromagnesite sand, so like a tropical atoll that it is nicknamed the 'Maldives of Turkey', and so geologically unusual that NASA has studied it as an Earth analogue for the Jezero crater on Mars. It sits high on the Anatolian plateau near Yeşilova, about 170 kilometres northwest of Belek, roughly a 2-hour-20-minute drive. Our private transfer takes you there and back at a fixed price for a cool, otherworldly full day away from the coast.
What to expect
- A scenic 2h20 drive northwest from Belek, up onto the plateau, to Salda Lake near Yeşilova.
- Door-to-door pickup from your Belek hotel with an English-speaking driver.
- A comfortable air-conditioned Mercedes V-Class or Vito for up to 6 passengers.
- The driver waits while you swim, walk the white beaches and take in the turquoise water.
- A fixed price agreed at booking — no meter, no surprises; a refreshing full-day escape.
Pricing & Vehicles
Belek to Salda Lake is a fixed price from €150 in a Business V-Class or Vito for up to 6 passengers, covering the round trip and the driver's waiting time. There is no meter; the fare is agreed at booking. Entry to the protected Beyaz Adalar (White Islands) beach area is paid separately on site. Because it is a full-day trip of about 4.5 hours' driving round trip, an early start is best; the lake sits at altitude and is cooler than the coast.
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