Turkey Trip Plan

Click to enlargen	Marmaris Saturday -Arrival Marmaris gives you the opportunity to get to know Turkey from it's best side. A lovely, clean harbour, with lots of interesting restaurants, bars and cafés. A large selection of shopping opportunities - carpets, jewelry, leather and clothes. Near our ship, they have nice harbour facilities, such as a clean, modern shower facility, a swimming pool and even a fitness and bowling center. At night you can go out for entertainment and dancing in the Bar Street. Bars with Efes Beer on tap, disco, local live music and dancing are just some of the things you can experience in Marmaris' night life.
Click to enlargen	Ekincik Sunday Ekincik Bay is really beautiful. A wonderful big bay, surrounded by a pine forest. It's also known as the Green Sea Turtle Bay, because it's near the sea turtle raising station, Daylan. Because the turtles are curious, they often swim right us to the boat. The water is so clean, that it practically invites you for a swim. During the day, small boats will come by to ask if you want to take a day excursion to the mud baths and visit the sea turtle breeding station.
Click to enlargen	Cleopatra Bay Monday Hidden in the furthest corner of the Fethiye Golf lies Kotin Bay - also know as Cleopatra Bay, because the ruins pictured here are the ruins of her bath house. Today, most of it is underwater, where you can snorkel to see octopi. Because it's in the middle of a national park, there are no buildings around anywhere - just a homemade dock, and on this dock, they have the local restaurant, which can offer you a choice of four home-cooked menues. In the evening they even will play Turkish volk music for you.
Click to enlargen	Fethiye Tuesday Fethiye lies in the northeast of the Fethiye Golf and is a favourite holiday resort for the Dutch, as well as the British. It's a city the size of Marmaris, and is built, very picturesque, on a hill. You can't miss the impressive amphitheater they have excavated in the middle of town. Nearby, you can see numerous Lycian mausoleums. The city has lots of shopping opportunities, and it even has a small bazaar. Famous is the traditional Hamam (Turkish Bath) right in the middle of town.
Click to enlargen	Kalkan Wednesday Once this was an important border commerce town, when this place used to belong to Greece. After it was given to Turkey, the town turned into a sleepy fishing village, until the British sailing awakened it back to life in the 60's. Kalkan owes it's typical Turkish character thanks to the British, because liked this ideal of a small Turkish village. Kalkan is famous for 3 things: it's near the ancient city of Xanthippes, they sell quality wares in the shops, and the town has quite a few very fine Turkish Restaurants.
Click to enlargen	Kekova Thursday Kekova is one of the places everybody who takes a sailing trip dreams about later. Just a little east of the town of Kas, this little village lies in a secluded kidney-shaped bay. Famous is Hasan's Fish Restaurant. He claims to have the best fish restaurant in all of Turkey. On the penisula lie the ruins of an Ottoman fortress. Once you climb to the top, you can gaze down upon the ruins of the sunken Lycian city in the clear turquoise waters below.
Click to enlargen	Kemer Friday Just for once, you can stay in yacht harbour, were the Creme-de-la-Creme spend their holidays. Once a simple fishing village, they have now built an ultramodern marina, and have sent up shop for Europe's better earner holiday tourists. Techno disco, french cafés, tennis courts and they even have a water amusement park. The ancient city of Phaesylis is also nearby and well worth a visit to.
Click to enlargen	Antalya Saturday - possible crew change Behind the thick Ottoman fortress wall of the city harbour of Antalya, is where we will dock here. This bustling city has plenty to see - restaurants, shops, a huge bazaar, a distinguished museum for ancient history, as well as a pulsating nightlife. You can also take day trips to the Lara waterfalls or the Side ruins.
Click to enlargen	Olympos Sunday There are so many legends surrounding this place, that you have to see this place. This is the place of the legendary burning stone, that lights the olympic fire. This is where Prometheus was imprisioned by the Gods of Olympus, this is where the Chimera fall from the sky into the earth, and this is were Phoenecian pirates puldered the ancient city and made it their own.
Click to enlargen	3 Well Bay Monday Nothing less that a prestine beautiful bay, with quiet waters and silent hills. At night the entire parade of stars sail by overhead. This is a nice place to fish or go snorkeling, and you can even find fossils here.
Click to enlargen	Kas Tuesday On the most southern tip of Turkey is exactly where this resort village is. Stunning are the Lycian mausoleums that are directly in the harbour. In this village, we always go pay a visit to Smiley's Restaurant, because of his excellent fish dishes, his choice of wines, and the interesting wine cellar that is over 2000 years old. On the penisula you can see a small amphitheater.
Click to enlargen	Gilmiler Insel Wednesday Not far from Ölüdeniz - that place where the water is so blue, that they film commercials for Turkish holiday - lies the hidden island of Gimiler. Long ago this wasn't an island, but a penisula. An earthquake destroyed the Byzantine town of Gilmadiz. You can still view the ruins today.
Click to enlargen	Göçek Thursday Because of the large port built here to harbour swimming palaces, Port Göçek has earned a bigger reputation that the village itself. Göçek is a resort that revolves around yacht tourists, and has all of it's shops and restaurants located directly on the waterfront.
Click to enlargen	Ciftilik Friday Ciftilik Bay is just a few sea miles southwest of Marmaris. It's a wonderful bay with clear waters, sandy beaches and dramatic mountains. Odysseus would have felt right at home here. Today Mehmet lives here, and greets every yacht crew that comes here. His family prepares delicious meals in their garden taverne.