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Aegean & Mediterranean · May to October
Turquoise Coast
Bodrum and Yalıkavak’s Palmarina, then Göcek’s twelve islands and the sunken city at Kekova. The gulet was invented here and the charter fleet is enormous.
28 places on the chart: 12 harbour towns and ports, 7 islands, 4 anchorages and bays and 5 beaches.
Open Turquoise Coast on the chart
Why the fleet comes here
- Antalya
- The old Roman harbour at Kaleiçi, and a large modern marina
- Bodrum
- The gulet was built here; the castle stands over the harbour
- Marmaris
- A deep enclosed gulf, and the largest yard on the coast
- Fethiye
- A wide bay full of anchorages, and the rock tombs above the town
- Ölüdeniz
- The Blue Lagoon, anchored off outside the protected water
- Kaş
- A small marina under the mountains, opposite Kastellorizo
- Çeşme
- The marina and the castle, opposite Chios
- Alaçatı
- Stone houses and a bay that made it the windsurfing capital of Turkey
- Knidos
- An ancient double harbour at the tip of the Datça peninsula, still used as an anchorage
- Datça
- Halfway down the peninsula between the Gulf of Gökova and the Gulf of Hisarönü
- Kalkan
- A steep harbour town west of Kaş
- Göcek
- Six marinas and twelve islands, in the most sheltered gulf on the coast
- Kekova
- The sunken city — Lycian ruins running into the water along the north shore
- Yalıkavak
- Palmarina Yalıkavak, the largest superyacht marina in the eastern Mediterranean
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