Family trip: Cruising the Ceramic Gulf
We’ve had a number of requests for family gulet cruises over the years. Parents have told us that their children are so fascinated with the Greeks and Romans that they would love to bring them along on a trip. So in 2006 we created a one week trip in Turkey for families to coincide with the UK’s October half-term holidays. It was fully booked before all our other cultural tours, as have been our autumn family holidays ever since, so here it is again, by popular demand.
We know that a gulet cruise makes for a fun and fascinating family holiday. Children love playing in the sea and exploring the ancient ruins - taking the stage and performing in the Greek and Roman theatres. Peter’s 8-year old daughter, Rebecca, has sailed on gulets numerous times, revelling in the chance to paddle in the warm sea whenever she likes.
This trip weaves a magic combination of magnificent sites, quiet coves, and breathtaking vistas along the virtually pristine coast of the Ceramic Gulf, on Turkey’s south west coast. Cruising aboard a luxurious gulet our ever changing horizon is a wild, remote and mountainous landscape cut into long peninsulas, deep inlets, secluded coves and pine-fringed fjords.
Exploring this unspoilt coast, we rediscover the ancient realm of Mausolus, ruler of Caria, 2,400 years ago. His tomb, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, stood for almost two millennia in the centre of Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum, our starting point and final destination.
Highlights include beautifully preserved Knidos, a monumental marbled city arranged around a double harbour, and the Castle of St. Peter built by the Knights of Rhodes, and now one of the finest museums of underwater archaeology in the world.
