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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
Gulf of Gökova
Pine-backed bays with no road to them, east of Bodrum

Every place in Turquoise Coast