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Aegean · May to October
Dodecanese
Rhodes, Symi and Patmos, close enough to the Turkish coast to make one cruise of both.
18 places on the chart: 18 islands.
Open Dodecanese on the chart
Why the fleet comes here
- Rhodes
- Mandraki harbour and the walled medieval town
- Patmos
- Skala harbour under the monastery of St John
- Kos
- A marina, an airport and the crossing to Bodrum
- Symi
- Neoclassical houses stacked around a harbour, and Panormitis in the south
- Kalymnos
- The sponge island, and Vathy fjord
- Nisyros
- A live caldera you can walk into, and a harbour at Mandraki
- Leros
- Lakki, an Italian rationalist town on one of the best natural harbours in the Aegean
- Astypalea
- A butterfly-shaped island between the Cyclades and the Dodecanese
- Tilos
- Between Rhodes and Nisyros, and almost empty
- Halki
- One harbour, off the west coast of Rhodes
- Lipsi
- A small island north of Leros with a dozen coves
Every place in Dodecanese