BLUE CRUISE YACHT CHARTERS Sailing Greece And Sailing
Turkey Not The Ordinary Holiday Have you seen Ephesus! Have you been there? Have you combed Istanbul's Grand
Bazaar or climbed to the monastery on Patmos! Have you done that? Have you been to Greece and
Turkey! Blue Cruise Yacht Charters
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necessarily for human beings. Further information concerning yacht charters in Greece and Turkey
may be obtained by clicking on the boxed links immediately above. Thank You. Blue Cruise
Yacht Charters offers a full range of charter yacht sailing holidays and honeymoons cruising the
Turquoise Coast of Turkey and among Aegean islands of Greece. A yacht |
On a cruise ship three miles offshore?
Or are you planning to do so? Well, in any or all of those events, you've missed or are about to
miss the scenically beautiful and more interesting parts of two countries rich in wonders. You
should see Turkey's ancient Ionia, Caria, and Lycia close up from the deck of a yacht! You should take
that yacht through remote Dodecanese Islands of eastern Greece! Once parts of the Persian Empire
of Darius and Xerxes, parts of the Macedonian Empire of Alexander, the Seleucid Empire of
Antiochus, the Egyptian Empire of the Ptolemys, the Roman Empire of Caesar Augustus, the
Byzantine Empire of Constantine, and the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman! All of it encased in
history and much of it encased in pine trees to the edge of crystal clear water! Yes, the azure
sea once patrolled by the triremes of Artemisia, Memnon, and Marc Antony, and by the lateen-rigged
galliots of the Barbarossa brothers and the Ottoman flotillas of Piali Pasha. Capture the history
of ancient Didyma, Halicarnassus, Kastellorizon, Knidos, Loryma, Lydae, Phaselis, Rhodes, Simi,
and Xanthos by tracing the routes of Alexander's Macedonian phalanx, of Cleopatra's litter bearers,
and of Freya Stark's Elfin. Experience the flat water sailing 
of ancient Telmessos over which fast pirate triakonters and hemiolas
were once propelled by banks of opportunistic rowers. Explore the pirate ruins
of St. Nicholas Island, a trove of history visited by one in ten thousand of
Turkey's forty million annual tourists.
Photograph the splendors seen by the crews of captured galleys long ago, and by Pompey the Great
when he drove the pirates east, and by the pirates when they returned. Enjoy an evening at
Cleopatra's Bay, Cold Water Bay, Tomb Bay, Twenty-Two Fathom Cove, and a host of other anchorages
all within a few miles of each other. Delight in campfire cuisine, swim under pined slopes, and
talk to new friends about wonders seen. Cruise the Aegean islands of Greece: Samos, Leros, Kos,
Nisiros, and Tilos, among seven hundred others, exploring ancient and medieval ruins left by Dorians,
Venetians, and the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem. Do all of this and more aboard a yacht
selected, inspected, and approved for you by Blue Cruise Yacht Charters. Would you like to know
more? Well, let us answer your questions, crewed yacht or bare boat, where, when, how much.
Phone us in Turkey at +90-533-230-5781, e-mail us at 
Map of the Turquoise Coast
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routes and cruising areas for sailing Greece and sailing Turkey may be found by clicking on the
second, third, fourth, and fifth boxed links above. One of these may be a basis for the holiday or
honeymoon the reader seeks. A customized bare boat or crewed charter yacht sailing holiday or
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Turkey. Charter your yacht in Turkey. Charter your yacht in Greece. A crewed charter sailing yacht
cruising the Aegean from Bodrum. Or from Gocek. Or from Rhodes. A crewed charter sailing yacht to
sail the Mediterranean coast of Turkey and Aegean islands of Greece. A crewed charter yacht holiday
or honeymoon of a lifetime. Blue Cruise Yacht Charters can put the holiday-goer aboard a charter yacht
with an experienced crew able to sail the Aegean islands of Greece, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, the
Sporades, or Blue Cruise can put honeymooners aboard a crewed charter yacht to cruise Cleopatra's
honeymoon route up the Turkish coast to ancient Samos, or aboard a yacht to sail Alexander's
port-closing path down the coast of Turkey. 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 the Great. With an army of 43,000 Macedonians and Greeks Alexander first met
the Persians with their own Greek mercenaries at the River Granicus near ancient Troy where he soundly
defeated them. From the Troad Alexander marched south in pursuit of the Rhodian Greek
with weapons smuggled into the acropolis which still dominates the town today.
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 met the incumbent Great King, Darius III. Issus is a story for
another web page, but following the Persian rout, Darius in his haste to reach safety abandoned his royal
entourage including the then-deceased Memnon's widow Barsine. Barsine, too, is a story for another web page.
But proceeding south to Sidon where the citizens had recently executed their Phoenician satrap, it fell to
Alexander to choose a successor. This he did, choosing an out-of-favor relative of the executed satrap
then working as a gardener. Abdalonymus was his name and it was he who was later interred in the "Alexander
Sarcophagus" now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum and depicted above, so called because it depicts
Alexander in exquisite bas-relief both at Issus and at the hunt. Yes, Blue Cruise Yacht
Charters can show charter guests the tracks left by Alexander, relate attendant anecdotes, and provide
a bareboat or crewed yacht or gulet aboard which to cruise the crossroads of history. Sailing Greece.
Sailing Turkey. Contact