The Trip of a Lifetime. Swim vacations offer Masters swimmers the opportunity to explore beautiful open water destinations. “Follow the shoreline for 1 kilometer to the mouth of the bay,” says Borut Strel. co-founder of the swim vacation company Strel Swimming Adventures. “We’ll rendezvous there before we go across.” Clad from head to toe in…
Top 10 sea swimming holiday places in Southern Turkey (Lycian Coast) Güvercin Island - Kas Peninsula (Antalya). Limanagzi Bay - Kas. Gemiler Island - St. Nicolas. Gokayya Bay - near Kekova island. Kekova islands near Simena castle. Aperlai Bay - Lykia. UfakDere Bay - Lykia. Kas-Kastellorizo - Five Islands. Sogut Bay. Bozburun Peninsula, Ada Boğazı.…
As an avid recreational swimmer, I was surprised but thrilled to find an exclusive outdoor "swim vacation" advertised. Although I would have loved to travel to Europe, I decided to stay stateside and booked my trip to Lake Powell. In anticipation of my trip, I repeatedly watched the website videos, hoping that my experience would…
Read an amazing adventure article about swimming lakes in Slovenia with the legendary marathon swimmer Martin Strel. Writer Kate travels on our 4-day swimming holiday trip as a guest to experience what it takes to swim across Lake Bled, Bohinj, Predil and Soca river. Martin Strel doesn’t look like an elite athlete. When I meet…
I have always been a keen swimmer and decided to travel on a holiday on my own as a single person. So when I took up open water swimming last summer I wanted a new challenge and adventure in the water. Without initially knowing what to expect, I went on to develop a love for open…
Due to increased interest for our Croatian island hopping trips, we have decided to introduce a Croatian short swimming holiday. This 5-day swimming trip allows you to plan your budget in advance and also gives you a chance to explore following the trip. Croatia offers so much to see and do and we believe that…
As an experienced open water swimmer and water polo player, I was ecstatic to be offered work as an adventure swimming guide. Here are a few of my experiences and highlights from my summer working for Strel Swimming in Croatia. Krapanj is a beautiful, little island 450m away from the mainland. It is easily accessible…
My mother and I both enjoy swimming and we wanted to go on an active but relaxing holiday together. The Turkey Swimming- Sailing holiday was just incredible, I cannot believe how much we both enjoyed it. We were a group of 10 together with two swimming guides and 5 boat crew members on-board. Guests were…
Our Swim-Sail trip with Strel Swim Adventures off the coast of Turkey was the most relaxing and exhilarating vacation we have experienced. Our expectations were exceeded on so many counts: quality of guides, fellow swimmers, boat accommodations, and the water we swam in. This article is written by our guest Dorothy from the USA. Quality…
Read a great article written by our guest, professional writer and avid open water swimmer. She came from Toronto, Canada to do our five day Croatian island hopping swimming holiday. I love to swim. Pools are fine, but my real passion is swimming in open water. I’m fortunate to live a stone’s throw from one…
This week we have been swimming in Kas, Turkey. You can see from our amazing drone footage how clear and beautiful the water is. A swimmers' paradise, Kas offers super swimming spots in south west Turkey. The water is an amazing colour so it was tempting to just jump in! Kas town was fantastic, very…
We had a great 2015 season and it was our first year running swimming trips in Southern Turkey. All went very well and we have doubled the number of trips for 2016 season. We were especially pleased with our swimming and sailing cruise trip in Turkey. Our inaugural trip went very smoothly and offered living…
During one of our swimming trips in Montenegro 2016, we were lucky and felt extremely privileged to meet Dusan Mandic, the son of our wonderful boat captain Budo. Dusan has played water polo for Serbia for several years and this past summer won his first olympic gold medal in Rio! He was visiting his family…
We have put together a great drone clip of the amazing swimming holiday locations where we operate In the year of 2016 we did some amazing adventure swimming holiday trips. We edited some of our drone clips to show you places where we swim. The list below is the locations from the clip: 1) Croatian…
We had a fantastic time with amazing people from all over the world on our recent Swim and Sail Cruise trips. Our swimming and cruising journey route was in southern Turkey between Gocek and Kekova. On the way we stopped at Gemiler island (Blue Lagoon), Kalkan, Kas, Aperlai, the 5 islands in front of Greek…
We have introduced our Greek gulet based swimming holiday cruise trip in 2017. Living on the Mediterranean sea for a week offers a special and unique holiday experience. This trip gives us a chance to get in and swim straight from our luxurious liveaboard boat, have our own chef to cook meals for us and…
This part of Colorado river in Utah and Arizona is an absolute heaven for open water swimming adventures. We are proud to run our 5th year of operation on this location which includes swimming the Lake Powell canyons. Like to swim, hike and explore the scenic bays, canyons, buttes, boulders and more? Part of our lake…
See this amazing drone footage of our guests swimming Croatian islands. On our recent trips in Croatia and Montenegro, we captured some amazing aerial drone footage. Our swimmers are island hopping and also swimming along Croatian islands as well as the other areas that we visit. All clips are filmed during our swimming holidays along the Croatian Dalmatian…