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What follows is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human
beings. Further information concerning luxury charters in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by
clicking on the blue 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 theretofore, a luxury charter cruising the
beaches and pine-shrouded coves of ancient Lycia. Or you may be searching for a luxury charter
in Greece, one cruising the azure Aegean between remote Dodecanese islands. 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 a limited number of guests.
A yacht with room enough for privacy. Should you 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 and among other Greek Dodecanese islands. 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 or you and friends are treated like Egyptian royalty.
Can you imagine cruising the coast of Turkey and then venturing among Greek islands as did
Cleopatra! 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 track. Starting in Fethiye. Or Gocek. Are you searching for
Gocek in Turkey? For Fethiye in Turkey? Well, those towns are about 110 nautical miles SE of
Bodrum and about 45 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town. There or |
elsewhere we can put you aboard a luxury charter
yacht for the holiday of a lifetime. There you might like to first cruise the flat
sailing waters of the Gulf of Fethiye or Gulf of Telmessos. As mentioned, Telmessos
is the Greek name for the gulf and its principal city. Lycians (also a Greek appellation)
called both Telebehi, and so too did the Hittites. Are you wondering about the
Hittites? During the mid-14th century BC the Hittites penetrated through Lycia to the sea but
found Lycians inhospitable and soon withdrew. There is no such inhospitality today. Holiday in
Lycia. Holiday in Fethiye, previously known as Macry. What happened to the rest of the Roman
theater at Fethiye, anyway? Depicted to the left in a 1792 rendering by Luigi
Mayer, could anyone imagine carting those massive
blocks any distance! The Ottomans could. And did. Those blocks were used in 1850 to construct
military barracks at Uskudar on the Asian side of the Bosphorus. Sad, but true. Still, there
is enough of the theater remaining in Fethiye to host an occasional concert. Try and be there
then; it's magical. In Fethiye we can put you aboard a luxury charter yacht and show you the
flat sailing waters of the Gulfs of Gocek and Fethiye, show you Murat's track down the coast
of Lycia, show you his track back up the coast of Turkey and among Greek islands. And back
again to Rhodes Town where he served under Kurtoglu Muslihiddin Reis during Suleiman the Law
Giver's 1522 siege of the Hospitallers or Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, a siege of six
months duration promoting the Knights' new home at Malta. Tragically, four days before the
Hospitallers marched out in surrender, Murat died of his wounds. He was survived by his wife,
son, and two daughters as well as by a magnificent tomb commissioned by Suleiman which may
still be seen in Rhodes Town today. Kayhan Kaptan, a superb schooner-rigged yacht hosting
luxury charters in Turkey and Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today
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