GULET CRUISES FOR GROUPS

Choose from a wide range of offers the most suitable Gulet Cruise according to the size of your group and budget available. Contact us now for the personal assistance!

CABIN CRUISES FOR INDIVIDUALS

We can also offer individual Gulet cabins for one or two people. Share the experience of the Gulet Cruise at a lower cost. Choose from the regular dates and fixed routes.

CRUISE & LAND ACCOMMODATIONS

As a bonus before or after your cruise we can offer 3 days stay in the beautiful city of Bodrum. Hotels are available to cater...

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FULL DAY BODRUM PENINSULA TOUR

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BODRUM & HALIKARNASSOS

Bodrum is one of the most extensively visited and one of the most famous places in Turkey. According to legend it was built by the Dorians and Lelegians in the 11th century BC . In the 7th century BC it fell to the Lidians and in the next century to the Persians. Herodotus, who is known as the father of history, was born in Halicarnassos. The Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was found in this city. The famous king Mausolos made Halicarnassos the capital of the kingdom of Caria and in his time it was one of the cities that sucessfully repelled the attacks of the Persians. This resistance was eventually useless and the city finally passed into the hands of other kingdoms and finally lost its importance.
During the Middle Ages the Knights of St. John based in Rhodes built a Crusader castle which still stands in Bodrum and the city recovered some of its old importance. It came under the dominance of the Ottomans in 1552. During the period of the Ottoman Empire and the early Republic it was used as a place of banishment for dissidents and intellectuals. Cevat Şakir was banished here for three years but when his time was up he returned here to settle and stayed for the rest of his life. He wrote many books about the area under the pen-name ' The Fisherman of Halikarnassos'.