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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, escorted 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.

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. If one of our escorted tours is full or there is a particular itinerary you’d like us to create, or you have any questions about our escorted holidays, gulet trips or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Escorted Tours by Country:     Turkey    Greece    Italy


Escorted Tours in Turkey 


Turkish food gastronomic tour

A Gastronomic Gulet Cruise

Sat May 25 – Sat June 1 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Turkey gulet cruise Caria

Cruising the Carian Coast - from Mediterranean to Aegean

Sun June 2 - Sun June 9, 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Turkey escorted tour Ephesus

Cruising to Ephesus

Sat June 8 - Sat June 15, 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Turkey escorted tour Ephesus

Cruising to Ephesus

Sun June 9 - Sun June 16, 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Turkey tour gulet cruise Lycia

Cruising Western Lycia - Family Tour

Sat July 20 - Sat July 27, 2013

£2,195 GBP per person
£2,080 GBP per child under 12


guided Turkey tour Caria

Cruising the Carian Coast

Sat Aug 31 - Sat Sep 14, 2013

£3,625 GBP per person


Turkey tour gulet cruise Lycia

Cruising Western Lycia

Sat Aug 31 - Sat Sep 7 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Gulet cruise in Lycian Turkey

Cruising the Lycian Shore

Sat Aug 31 - Sat Sep 14, 2013

£3,560 GBP per person


Turkey escorted tour Ephesus

Cruising to Ephesus

Sat Aug 31 – Sat Sep 7, 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


tours of Cappadocia

Walking and Exploring Cappadocia

Mon Sept 2 - Sat Sept 7, 2013

£1,395 GBP per person


Istanbul Turkey tour

Exploring Istanbul

Sat Sep 7 - Sat Sep 14, 2013

£1,950 GBP per person


Turkey tour gulet cruise Lycia

Cruising Western Lycia

Sat Sep 14 - Sat Sep 21 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Turkey escorted tour Ephesus

Cruising to Ephesus

Sat Sep 14 – Sat Sep 21 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Turkey gulet cruise Caria

Cruising the Carian Coast - from Aegean to Mediterranean

Sat Sep 21 - Sat Sep 28 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Escorted food tour Turkey

A Gastronomic Gulet Cruise

Sat Sep 28 - Sat Oct 5, 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Walking holiday Lycian Way Turkey

Walking and Cruising the Lycian Shore

Sat Sep 28 - Sat Oct 12 2013

£3,560 GBP per person


Walking holiday Lycian Way Turkey

Walking and Cruising Western Lycia

Sat Oct 5 – Sat Oct 12 2013

£2,065 GBP per person


Alexander the Great Turkey tour

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Asia Minor - Part One

Mon April 28 – Thur May 8 2014

£2,695 GBP per person


Escorted Tours in Greece 


Greece gulet tour Dodecanese islands

Cruising the Northern Dodecanese

Sat Sep 7 - Sat Sep 14, 2013

£2,250 GBP per person


Greece gulet tour Aegean

Cruising the South-East Aegean: Greek Isles and Turkish Shores

Sep 21 - Sep 28, 2013

£2,250 GBP per person


Greece Crete Island Tour

Exploring Crete: Archaeology, Nature & Food

Tues April 29 – Sat May 10, 2014

£2,795 GBP per person


Greece tour Cyclades islands

Cruising to the Cyclades

Sat May 17 - Sat May 31, 2014

£3,725 GBP per person


Escorted Tours in Italy 


Italy tours Amalfi Coast holidays

Cruising the Amalfi Coast

Sat Sep 7 - Sat Sep 14, 2013

£3,595 GBP per person


Italy tours Amalfi Coast holidays

Cruising the Amalfi Coast

Sat Sep 14 - Sat Sep 21, 2013

£3,595 GBP per person


Sicily holidays Food Tour

A Gastronomic Tour of Sicily

Sat Oct 5 - Sat Oct 12, 2013

£2,495 GBP per person



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Turkish gulet cruising

Other escorted tour itineraries

We change our guided archaeological tours and gulet cruising itineraries on an annual basis. Below, you can see examples of other trips we have offered previously. If there is a particular escorted holiday in Turkey, Greece or Italy you would like to do, get in touch! One of our team of expert archaeologist tour leaders will be delighted to accompany you.

We also create tailor-made archaeological tours for small groups. If you would like to explore part of Turkey, Greece or Italy in the company of an archaeologist or historian, we’ll be delighted to work with you to develop an escorted tour that fits your wishes. There are so many archaeological wonders to discover in the Mediterranean. We look forward to welcoming on our very special tours, archaeological adventures with a difference!


Escorted tours eastern Lycia

Eastern Lycia cruise

Escorted tour in Turkey by gulet


Guided Turkey tour Pamphylia

Springtime in Pamphylia - a land based tour

Escorted archaeological tour in Turkey


Greece tour Southern Dodecanese

Cruising the Southern Dodecanese

Escorted tour of the Greek Islands


Sicily holidays | Escorted tour Sicily

Sailing the Sicilian Shore

Escorted tour in Sicily


Turkey tour writing and sailing

Writing & Sailing in Caria

Travel writing tour in Turkey


Escorted tour | Sicily holidays

Cruising by Etna

Escorted tour of Sicily


Turkey gulet tour Bodrum Cup

The Bodrum Cup Regatta

Gulet holiday in Turkey


Greece Dodecanese escorted tour

Cruising the Dodecanese

Greek Islands tour


Turkey gulet cruise Ceramic Gulf

Cruising the Ceramic Gulf

Gulet tour in Turkey


Guided Turkey tour of Ephesus

Exploring Ephesus and Ionia by land

Archaeological tour in Turkey


Turkey tours Halicarnassus to Ephesus

From Halicarnassus to Ephesus

Archaeological cruise in Turkey


Alexander the Great: tour in Greece

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

Escorted archaeological tour in Greece


Alexander the Great: tour Turkey

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

Escorted archaeological tour of Turkey


Family Holiday Turkey tour

From Halicarnassus to Didyma

Escorted gulet cruise in Turkey


guided Turkey tour Caria

A Carian Odyssey

Escorted vacation in Turkey