Cultural Tours


Tour Brochure

Tour Brochure

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TESTIMONIALS

The gulet cruise was magical...your itinerary made me fall in love with Turkey, with the ancient world, with the land in and around the Mediterranean Sea, and for that I am eternally grateful.

Fay Sutherland, Boston, USA

My husband, 16-year-old son and I just spent a week on the gulet Almira in Turkey. It was one of the best travel experiences we’ve ever had. Worth every penny. I can’t recommend Peter Sommer Travels highly enough. We have travelled extensively and we all agreed that this was one of the most fun, most relaxing, and most interesting things we have done anywhere.

Sue Siluch, BC, Canada

Escorted Tours and Gulet Cruises: Turkey, Greece & Italy

We specialise in small group escorted tours (max 18 people) in Turkey, Greece and Italy, primarily gulet cruises aboard traditional Turkish gulets. Below is our current schedule of archaeology tours, cultural holidays and gulet cruises. Many of our cultural adventures book up many months in advance, so we recommend booking your places early!

A long established tour operator (Peter led his first historical Turkey tour in 1996), we have assembled a team of leading experts and specialists to lead our cultural holidays and archaeological tours in Turkey, Greece and Italy. We offer a wide range of escorted tours from spring to autumn: from adventure family holidays to gastronomic tours and walking vacations. If one of our escorted tours is showing as full or there is a particular itinerary you’d like us to create, please get in touch. We are happy to design custom made tours for small groups. As well as our scheduled trips below, we also offer bespoke gulet cruises and charters.

Escorted Tours by Country:     Turkey    Greece    Italy


Escorted Tours in Turkey 


Alexander the Great: tour Turkey

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

Wed Apr 25 - Mon May 14 2012

£4,350 GBP per person


Turkey escorted tour Ephesus

Cruising to Ephesus

Sat May 19 – Sat May 26 2012

£1,995 GBP per person


Turkish food gastronomic tour

A Gastronomic Gulet Cruise

Sat May 26 – Sat June 2 2012

£1,995 GBP per person


Turkey gulet cruise Caria

Cruising the Carian Coast - from Mediterranean to Aegean

Sat Jun 2 - Sat Jun 9 2012

£1,995 GBP per person


Turkey gulet cruise Caria

Cruising the Carian Coast - from Mediterranean to Aegean

Sat July 21 - Sat July 28, 2012

£2,175 GBP per person
£2,050 GBP per child under 12


Turkey tour gulet cruise Lycia

Cruising Western Lycia

Sat Sep 1 - Sat Sep 8 2012

£1,995 GBP per person


Turkey escorted tour Ephesus

Cruising to Ephesus

Sat Sep 1 – Sat Sep 8 2012

£1,995 GBP per person


tours of Cappadocia

Exploring Cappadocia

Mon Sept 3 - Sat Sept 8, 2012

£1,375 GBP per person


Istanbul tour Turkey

Exploring Istanbul

Sat Sep 8 - Sat Sep 15 2012

£1,925 GBP per person


guided Turkey tour Caria

A Carian Odyssey

Sat Sept 8 - Sat Sept 22 2012

£3,425 GBP per person


Turkey gulet cruise Caria

Cruising the Carian Coast - from Mediterranean to Aegean

Sat Sep 8 - Sat Sep 15 2012

£1,995 GBP per person


Turkey escorted tour Ephesus

Cruising to Ephesus

Sat Sep 15 – Sat Sep 22 2012

£1,995 GBP per person


Gulet cruise in Lycian Turkey

Cruising the Lycian Shore

Sat Sep 22 – Sat Oct 6 2012

£3,425 GBP per person


Walking holiday Lycian Way Turkey

Walking and Cruising the Lycian Shore

Sat Sept 29 – Sat Oct 13 2012

£3,425 GBP per person


Escorted Tours in Greece 


Alexander the Great: tour in Greece

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: from Boy to King

Mon Apr 23 - Sat May 12 2012

£4,795 GBP per person


Greece tour Cyclades islands

Cruising to the Cyclades

Sat May 19 – Sat June 2 2012

£3,675 GBP per person


Escorted Tours in Italy 


Italy tours Amalfi Coast holidays

Cruising the Amalfi Coast

Sat June 9 - Sat June 16 2012

£3,595 GBP per person


Italy tours Amalfi Coast holidays

Cruising the Amalfi Coast

Sat Sept 15 - Sat Sept 22 2012

£3,595 GBP per person


Food Tour Sicily holidays

A Gastronomic Tour of Eastern Sicily

Sat Oct 6 - Sat Oct 13 2012

£2,495 GBP per person



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Private Escorted Tours & Turkish Gulet Charters

As well as our scheduled guided archaeological tours of Turkey, Greece and Italy, we also offer bespoke Turkish gulet charters, group cultural holidays and corporate vacations. If you have any questions about our escorted tours, cultural holidays, gulet cruises or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Other Custom made tour itineraries

We change our guided archaeological tours and gulet cruise itineraries on an annual basis. You can see examples of other trips we have offered previously below. If there is a particular escorted tour of Turkey, Greece or Italy you would like to do, get in touch!


Escorted tours eastern Lycia

Eastern Lycia cruise

Escorted tour by gulet



Greece tour Southern Dodecanese

Cruising the Southern Dodecanese

Escorted tour of the Greek Islands


Greece gulet tour Dodecanese islands

Cruising the Northern Dodecanese

Greek Islands escorted tour


Sicily holidays | Escorted tour Sicily

Sailing the Sicilian Shore

Escorted tour in Sicily



Escorted tour | Sicily holidays

Cruising by Etna

Escorted tours of Sicily