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Further information concerning crewed gulets cruising ancient Caria and Lycia in Turkey may be
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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 II and, reflecting the number of local kings, the Persian king was thereafter
labeled the Great King. With an army of 35,000 Macedonians and Greek mercenaries Alexander
first met Persian defenders at the River Granicus near ancient Troy. These were led by Spithridates,
the great king's viceroy of Lydia and Ionia, and by Memnon, a Greek from Rhodes. With his Macedonian
companion-cavalry commander Amyntas in the van leading the charge, Alexander emerged
victorious. Soon thereafter he dispensed with the Greek portion of his army, suspect in light of
Memnon's own Greek contingent as well as in light of year-earlier rebellion on the part of Athens.
From the Troad Alexander marched south. Sardis and Ephesus capitulated without resistance, while
defense of Priene was fleeting. There was resistance at Miletus, stiff but not stiff enough. It was
at Miletus that Alexander also dispensed with his navy, believing suspect Greek crews no match
for more numerous Phoenicians and Cypriots serving the Great King at sea. He settled instead on a
strategy of denying the Persian fleet mainland ports such as Miletus. The next such port was
Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) in Caria. Defended by Memnon, its defense proved determined and
protracted. Alexander continued on without awaiting the city's surrender, leaving the ensuing 12-month
siege in the hands of his trusted 23 year-old lieutenant Ptolemy, later Ptolemy I Soter, Egyptian
pharaoh and Cleopatra's forebear. Marching southeast, Alexander left Carian Knidos and Caunos for
Ptolemy. Upon crossing the Dalaman River he reached Hyparna, thought to be modern Gocek. Defended by
Greek mercenaries, Hyparna fell in short order, and Alexander continued on to Telmessos, modern Fethiye
and one of two major Lycian ports. Telmessos also fell but only after a ruse involving dancers and
attendants 
with weapons smuggled into the acropolis
still dominating 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 depicted at
right 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. 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
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