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Zakynthos Tour: Discover Cameo Island and Turtle Bay
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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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(112 Ratings)
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K1518vdallisonm
Aug 19, 2025
Perfect day with Dali Tours - This was a perfect day, well organised and great communication compared to some of the shambles with tour companies in Zante. Our driver George was lovely and informative, arrived early to collect us and gave us clear instructions where to meet etc. The boat was one of the smaller ones so more private and not overcrowded. We went to the Olive press first to avoid 4pm crowds and it was a great idea. All in all the tour was perfect and we even saw a sea turtle. Highly recommend !
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Andy_w
Aug 3, 2025
Fun with turtles and caves - Well organised and friendly, this is run by Dali Tours and Nautilus. We saw a turtle as promised, the swim stops are in great spots and you get close to the natural arches and caves.
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Michelecm9281fi
Jul 24, 2025
- Unique experience. To try absolutely we saw the magnificent turtles swimming and visited the beautiful caves the water was really crystal clear
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Wendy_s
Jul 17, 2025
Day out at sea. Seeing Turtles in the sea. - Great day out to see Turtle beach and turtles at sea.
Very kind company. Offered to swap dates when my partner unwell on the day.
Great day out. Picked up and dropped off.
Driver very helpful.
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Sarah_g
Jun 1, 2025
100% Highly recommend. - Fabulous experience! Breathtaking views and excellent tour guide and captain. Everything was perfect. Thank you so much. We see turtles! Myself and daughter was amazed by them.
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Angelmarius_t
Jun 23, 2025
Great experience, disappointing ending - Great experience. Good scheduling, transport good, the guide was comunicative, gave us a lot of info about the turtles. Everything went well until the ride back when almost ruined everything. We chose not to activate the pick-up option and drive to their HQ in Zakynthos town. When we returned, even if has passed through Zakynthos didn't went to the HQ to drop us (with a 5 years kid) and 1 other person, it went pass Zakynthos abd drove an additional approx 30minutes to return in Zakynthos. When i asked the response was that the persons that were left of stayed in total more than us in the car and needed to balance the time spent in the car... Totally out of my logic. I chose to drive to the pick-up point, the others chose to be picked up... Very ugly and completely unnecessary ending. Very disappointed about this. My 4 stars ar going to the rest of the activities.
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Lara_j
Jun 6, 2025
Turtle tour - Great trip and saw lots of the island coast line and turtles. Would have liked to see more of the natures including birds and not stop multiple times to swim. Once is enough near the caves. George who collected us was super helpful and very welcoming plus the captain of the boat and his son.
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Margret_w
Jun 6, 2025
Nice trip but not quite top - Dangers along the turtle. Here we stayed too long to take pictures. We felt this was not okay for animal welfare.
The trip at sea to the Keri caves was very nice and swimming at the caves was a beautiful experience.
Turtle island is a sandy beach where we stopped to swim. Here were several food boats so the swimming was not really relaxed. But in terms of food and drinks, good life. We would have liked it better if there had been some chairs.
Further boat trip was fine
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C6950zxroyd
Jun 22, 2025
Disappointing trip - We booked this trip due to the positive feedback, but this was a bit disappointing. We were first driven by van to a beach to watch turtle nests for half an hour where nothing could be seen, then again by van to Cameo Island which was basically free to visit, but no time because we had to go to the 'boat', with 34 men on a far too small boat crammed out to sea. And I did see 1 sea turtle always floating around and circling around it with 3 or 4 boats for 15 minutes, poor animal. Then we were 'dropped' on Turtle Island to swim for a whole hour (45 minutes). Then again with 34 men crammed on the boat out to sea, along the Keri caves and nicely swam along the way and dive off the boat. Then back to the Olive-oil museum, which is also just free for a very short story about the olive harvest. Well tis nice but don't expect too much from this tour.
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Jacquesr74
Sep 11, 2025
Disgusted animal cruelty - What a horrible experience. If you are an animal lover, DO NOT GO!!!! The boats literally hunt the turtles and then cage them in with their boats. When the turtles try to come up for air they move the glass bottom boat over them so people can take photos. Boats dock on Turtle island which is illegal and people don’t respect the nests.
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