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Further information concerning crewed gulets cruising ancient Caria and Lycia in Turkey may be
obtained by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. As you are unlikely to
be looking for a kayhan, you must be looking for a crewed gulet cruising ancient Caria or Lycia. Or
for a crewed gulet cruising Turkey. In either event, you have come to the right place. The schooner
Kayhan 10 cruises the Turquoise Coast of Turkey, the popular Blue Cruise, following Alexander's Path
east around ancient Caria and Lycia to Phaselis and then cruising Cleopatra's Route in the other
direction. This is perhaps the holiday for which you are searching. Alexander, it might be noted,
crossed the Hellespont into Asia Minor in |
334 BC not yet at the age of twenty-two. The Persians had 220 years earlier made Asia Minor a
dominion of Cyrus the Great (thus and thereafter the Persian king was labeled the Great King).
With an army of 43,000 Macedonians and Greeks Alexander first met the Persians with their own Greek
mercenaries at the River Granicus near ancient Troy. With Amyntas, son of Arrhabaeus, in the van
leading the cavalry charge, he soundly defeated them. Soon thereafter Alexander dispensed with the
Greek portion of his own army, suspect in light of year-earlier rebellion on the part of much of
Greece. From the Troad Alexander marched south in pursuit of the Rhodian Greek
with weapons smuggled into the acropolis
which still dominates the town today. Because Amyntas is a Macedonian name, the name, for example, of
Alexander's paternal grandfather, and because the aforementioned Amyntas son of Arrhabaeus never again
appears in history, and because the Amyntas Temple Tomb in Fethiye may be archaeologically dated to
the 4th century, and because it is inscribed with the name Amyntus son of Hermapius, it is fair to
speculate that this famous structure carved in one piece from the hillside near the acropolis belongs
to none other than Alexander's cavalry commander, and that Hermapius is a corruption of Arrhabaeus or
vice versa. Be that as it may, there was no significant resistance upon leaving Telmessos and entering
the Xanthos Valley as Pinara, Xanthos, and Patara in succession welcomed the Macedonians, Patara the
other major Lycian seaport. Alexander was similarly greeted at Tlos, Arykanda, modern Finike, and Limyra
before moving up the Alakir River and crossing the mountains to Greek-speaking Phaselis where he rested
for weeks. And so there was no real resistance along Alexander's Path through Lycia. In fact, there was
no real resistance after Halicarnassus until Issus where he was to meet the incumbent Great King, Darius
III. Wouldn't you like to charter a crewed gulet to cruise the welcoming coast of Lycia? Paralleling
Alexander's march? Kayhan 10 is a rental yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the coast of
Turkey. A superb schooner-rigged gulet cruising Alexander's Path along the coasts of ancient Caria and
Lycia in Turkey. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at