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Further information concerning gulets cruising the Turkish coast from Fethiye and Gocek may be obtained
by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for a luxury
charter in Turkey. A luxury charter perhaps originating in Fethiye, a natural seaport known as Telmessos
after Alexander and as Telebehi before Alexander, a luxury charter cruising the beaches and pine-shrouded
coves of Turkey's ancient Lycia. Or you may be searching for a luxury charter along the coast of Turkey's
ancient Caria, one cruising the azure Aegean between Gocek and Miletus. Or you may be hoping to do both
during the same holiday. Well, both can be done. How about doing one or both aboard a large luxury charter
yacht with accommodations for eighteen guests. And yet a yacht with room enough for privacy. You might in
fact decide to cruise the aforementioned coast of Lycia, a coast stretching from Fethiye to Phaselis in
the Gulf of Antalya. You might stop on the way at Greek Kastellorizon, once a properous coaling station
with a population of 9,000, now dwindled to 300. Or you might decide to sail Cleopatra's Route along the
coast of neighboring Caria. While you holiday. While you swim the coves Cleopatra swam, while you laze on
beaches where Cleopatra lazed. Do any or all of this while you and family and friends are treated like
Egyptian royalty. Can you imagine cruising the coast of Turkey as did Cleopatra in the first century BCE!
Or as did Murat Kaptan in the early 16th century! Can you imagine having a group of friends holiday aboard
a luxury charter yacht proceeding leisurely from intriguing locale to intriguing locale! Along Murat's
several tracks. Murat was a Slav from Ragusa, modern Dubrovnik, who passed his early years at Istanbul's
Topkapi Palace before convincing his masters he might be of more value at sea. Bringing with him skills
acquired along the Adriatic's Dalmatian coast he soon demonstrated his ability at Gallipoli (Gelibolu) in
the Sea of Marmara, quickly rising to command of his own galliot (small galley) with which he raided
Latin-held islands in the Aegean including Rhodes 40-odd nautical miles WSW of Gocek and Fethiye. Are you
searching for Gocek? For Fethiye? Well, these towns opposite Rhodes are about 110 nautical miles SE of
Bodrum and within an hour of their own international airport at Dalaman. There or |
elsewhere we can put you aboard a luxury
charter yacht for the holiday of a lifetime. Once on board you might like to cruise southeast to Kekova
Roads, perhaps the most scenically stunning of Blue Cruise waypoints. What happened to the Cacamo cistern
depicted to the left? It was more or less as depicted when painted by Luigi Mayer in 1792. Where is it
today? Not many know! A mere handful! Because the Cacamo (Kekova) cistern partially buried at the near end
in 1792 is completely buried today. But for small openings at either end and in the overhead. Would you
like to see it? Would you like to see those seven Gothic arches depicted? And seven more not depicted?
Kayhan 9 can show them to you! In Gocek or Fethiye we can put you aboard a luxury charter yacht and show
you Murat's track down the coast of Lycia to Kekova Roads, show you the Cacamo cistern and much more, and
show you Murat's track back up the coast of Turkey and among Greek islands. All the way to Levkas and the
1538 battle of Preveza where Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa with Murat Reis (Kaptan) in company thoroughly
outwitted a larger and more powerful fleet under Andrea Doria. Kayhan 9, a superb three-masted schooner
cruising the Turkish coast from Gocek and Fethiye. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht
Charters today at