Booking fee
The booking fee includes the costs of booking your tickets such as charges for payment processing. It also covers the provision of our customer care center for processing your order, and all charges imposed by our suppliers.
* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
- Half day (4 hours)
- free Pick up/ drop off at your accommodation
- driving to the nature reserve with explanation of landscapes and history of Sicily of that area.
- Visit to Roman villa mosaics
- Visit to Marshland area and hides to view migratory birds ( Eg. Pink Flamingos )
- Visit 700' Tuna Industry
- Visit to Tuna museum
- Visit to 2000 years old greek fish industry
- Coastal hike
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Local guide
Private tour
Professional guide
Driver/guide
Port pickup and drop-off
All activities
Transport by private vehicle
Food and drinks, unless specified
Lunch
Food and drinks
Drinks
Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Departure Point
Syracuse, Syracuse, Italy
Traveler pickup
Siracusa
Taormina
Catania
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Specialized infant seats are available
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
Children must be accompanied by an adult
At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
Refunds will not be issued if tour/activity is missed due to late or non-arrival of cruise ship
May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
934JohnC
15 Apr 2023
Just drive into this special place and enjoy. Birders must go here if traveling in Sicily. No need for a tour. Several km of trails, a few observation blinds, wetlands full of flamingoes shorebirds and waterfowl. A few euros for parking and a few for entry. Some historical buildings on one point going back 600 years. After the walk there is a little wine bar where snacks and coffees are available. Or if you want a gourmet lunch there is an outdoor service with some nice wines available. Doesn’t look like much but the food sure does.
Angelo F
02 Feb 2023
La riserva è ben curata e pulita. Ci sono molti posti di osservazione per gli amanti del birdwatching, molti sentieri per passeggiate e la storica e ben conservata tonnara di vendicari. Il biglietto di ingresso di 3,50 € è valido per l'intera giornata e per accedere alla riserva da tutti i punti di ingresso disponibili. Munitevi di acqua e cibo perché all'interno della riserva non ci sono punti di ristoro. Consigliatissimo.
Roadbirds
16 Sep 2022
This is a nice nature preserve with a dose of commercial activity. It does not have its own parking but some enterprising neighbours have set up a parking lot about 750 m away. 5 Euro will get you a secure spot and bottle of water. Then you walk down the road to the nature reserve ticket office and entrance is 3.50 each. This allows you entry and access to the walkways, bird blinds and old tuna processing plant. We went 10 ish and it was very hot. Limited shade except for the blinds. We did see plenty of flamingos, herons and egrets in the lagoon. Disappointingly there were. Lot of cordoned off areas - such as the salt-flats and the Swabian tower. No exhibits were open but there were some information boards. We did not go to the "beach club" which required a further fee. A free beach was accessible near the Swabian tower. If you want to go for the birds go much earlier than we did. A good 1.5 mile hike from parking lot to the Tonnara with limited shade made it very hot. Take good binoculars as the blinds are set a fair way back. Very few song birds likely due to the Sicilian hunting habits and general abundance of feral cats. Bring hats and lots of water. There were some dubious looking portapotties on the way in.
This tour in
Sicily
is organized by
Sicily Nature Adventures
We always double-check the availability with our local partners for each booking. Even though this is usually a swift process, it can take up to 24 hours. Once this process is completed you will receive your voucher or ticket by email. If our local partner is not able to confirm your booking we will offer you the best possible alternative. If the new date and/or time doesn’t fit your itinerary, we will reimburse the full amount paid.
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