Yachting
One of the top cruising areas in the mediterranean basin, southwestern reaches of mediterranean turkey coasts of lycia and western pamphylia offers abundant yachting options. in the much famed and hardly overestimated blue cruise a.k.a. blue voyage; mavi yolculuk, started by a group of turkish intellectuals in 1940s and usually compared to cruising in caribbean, you take a chartered gulet type yacht two-masted wooden boats for a pre-specified amount of time usually 15 days, and cruise from cove to cove with turquoise waters surrounded by pine-covered mountains suddenly rising at the edge of the sea, calling at coastal towns and fishing villages on the way. marmaris, fethiye, kaå, and bodrum and kuåadasä± the last two of which are in aegean region are usual starting points of a blue cruise, although voyages extending all the way from izmir to antalya are not unheard of.
