You will spend your nights along the sublime waters of the Turquoise Coast aboard a wooden ship known as a Turkish Gulet.

Gulet is a modern version of the traditional wooden-hulled sailing vessels that plied the Aegean for centuries. Many of them are still built the old fashined way by hand and without the aid of modern blueprints. So, each Gulet varies slightly from the next.

There vessels are perfect for hugging the Turkish coastline in the search of ancient Lycian ruins , hidden coves while tucking into idyllic bays to drop anchor for the night.

One of the defining characteristics of a gulet trip is the back to nature appreciation of the simple things: the clean fresh air, the canopy of stars at night, the time to lounge about and read. Swimming in the crystal waters of the celebrated turquoise coast is of course one of the frequent highlights.

Not only is a gulet cruise the best way to explore such an essentially maritime civilisation, sometimes it’s the only way.

Even now, there are tiny coastal villages which are accessible only by sea.