Turkey Charter Itinerary

Turkey Itinerary

Turkey Yacht Charter
The Turkish coast between Marmaris and Fethiye is pine-covered mountain running straight into clear water, with ruins in almost every bay. Nobody cleared them, nobody fenced them. You anchor, swim ashore, and there is an acropolis above the beach.





This is gulet country, and the rhythm suits any yacht: short passages, deep sheltered inlets, and a habit of tying stern-to against a jetty at some family restaurant with no road behind it. The history is Lycian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine, in layers, mostly unlabelled.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Turquoise Coast; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Marmaris to Kumlubuku

Leave Marmaris and its busy marina for Kumlubuku, a pebble bay on the Bozburun peninsula. Above it stand the ruins of Amos ’ a small Hellenistic theatre looking out over the water, unfenced and usually empty. Swim, climb up in the cool of the evening, and eat by the shore.
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Day 2

Bozukkale & Bozburun

Bozukkale is the ancient Loryma, a fortress guarding a natural harbour so well protected the Athenian fleet used it. Hike to the acropolis for the view across to Rhodes. Then Bozburun, once a boatbuilding village and still, quietly, building wooden gulets by eye rather than by plan. Seafood on the quay.
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Day 3

Selimiye

Cruise the Gulf of Hisarönü, stopping in coves as they present themselves ’ the water here is deep and cold and startlingly clear. Selimiye is a village around a bay with a ruined castle on the hill and a jetty at every restaurant. Tie up, eat what the fishermen brought, and watch the light go behind the mountains.
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Day 4

Ekincik & Dalyan

Cross to Ekincik Bay and take a river boat up the Dalyan delta through reed beds to Caunos, a city that was a port until the river silted and left it two miles inland. Lycian rock tombs are cut into the cliff face above the water, temple fronts carved directly into stone. İztuzu beach below is a loggerhead nesting site.
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Day 5

Aga Limani

Sail east across the Gulf of Fethiye, breaking for breakfast and a snorkel in a bay of your choosing. Aga Limani is a quiet anchorage with a short walk to ruins that nobody has bothered to name on the chart. A Turkish dinner ashore ’ meze, grilled fish, raki ’ and an anchorage with two other boats in it.
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Day 6

Gemiler Island

Gemiler is covered in Byzantine churches ’ five of them, with mosaic floors and a covered processional way running to the summit. It is thought to be the burial place of the original Saint Nicholas. Swim in the channel, then climb at dusk: the sunset from the top is the one everybody on this coast talks about.
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Day 7

Cleopatra’s Bay to Göcek

A last day among the twelve islands of the Gulf of Fethiye. Tersane has a ruined Ottoman shipyard and a village abandoned in 1923. At Cleopatra’s Bay the remains of a bath house lie just below the surface, and you swim over cut stone. Then Göcek, six marinas and a good dinner, to finish.
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