Gulet Cruises Turkey.co.uk is designed for independent travellers and groups specialising in year-round holidays in Turkey, Croatia, Sicily and the Maldives. Think of our Gulets as enchanting sailing vessels from a bygone era, offering a choice of onboard accommodation - from super luxury sailing yachts to great value cabins. Our cruises sail for just a few hours each morning and arrive at a new place every day - so you have more time to see the many sights, enjoy remote beach's and warm blue seas. All brought to you by the Gulet Cruises Turkey company.
The Blue Cruise, also known as the Blue Voyage ("Mavi Yolculuk" in Turkish) is a term used for the recreational boating tours along the Turkish Riviera on Turkey's southwestern coast, with connotations in tourism and literature. The term is used by Turkey's tourism industry. It was derived from the title of a 1957 book by Azra Erhat.
The Turkish Riviera (also known popularly as the Turquoise Coast) is a term used to define an area of southwest Turkey encompassing Antalya, Muğla and to a lesser extent the provinces of Aydın, southern İzmir and western Mersin. The combination of a favorable climate, warm sea, more than a thousand kilometers of shoreline along the Aegean and Mediterranean waters, and abundant natural and archeological points of interest makes this stretch of Turkey’s coastline a popular national and international tourist destination.
Among the archeological points of interest are two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos in Halicarnassus and the remains of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which can still be seen today.[1]
The Riviera is also the home for the internationally-known Blue Voyage, which allows participants to enjoy a weeklong trip on Gulets to ancient cities, harbors, tombs, mausolea and intimate beaches in the numerous small coves, lush forests and streams that lace the Turquoise Coast.
Marinas in Turkey refer to Turkey's ports of call for international and local yachtsmen equipped with modern services routinely expected in recreational boating industry, and they are presently found either in or near Istanbul or İzmir, the two largest port cities of the country, or in or near large towns whose economies are focused on tourism in the Aegean Sea or the Mediterranean Sea, with a particular concentration in southwest Anatolia.
Although the history of modern services geared to recreational boating reaches back to only slightly more than three decades in Turkey, the country's increasing popularity in nautical tourism is advantaged by its spectacular coastline and a past noted for the rich sea-faring literature, some of whose references are part of everyday culture, as is the case for the Blue Cruise, and the search for the Golden Fleece.
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