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Dear Homo Sapiens, There is no need to continue reading this page. What follows is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human beings. Further information concerning charter sailing in Turkey and Greece may be obtained by clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for a yacht charter-sailing Turkey or Greece? Or for a yacht-charter sailing Turkey or Greece? Have you considered a gulet charter-sailing Turkey? A gulet being a large wooden motor-sailer. A gulet charter sailing the coast of Turkey from one pine-fringed bay to another pine-fringed bay. Or are you dreaming of a yacht charter sailing Greece? Because you would prefer to go sailing in Greece from remote Greek island to remote Greek island. Or would you really like to do both. Perhaps beginning with a cruise along the coast of Turkey's ancient Caria, the southwest corner of Anatolia. Or beginning with a sail in Cleopatra's wake along the coast of Caria and among Greek Dodecanese islands. While you holiday. That's right, while you have an extended family holiday aboard a crewed sailing gulet cruising just as did Cleopatra on her galley honeymoon with Marc Antony. Among other places visited, Cleopatra paused for weeks on the Greek island of Kos. She also paused at Cedrae about thirty miles east of Kos, there importing sand from Egypt for her swimming pleasure. Would you like to have a family holiday sailing Cleopatra's route? Enjoying a similar swimming pleasure. Sailing north from Kos and Cedrae along the coast of ancient Ionia, a part of the west coast of Turkey, to Kusadasi and Ephesus, thence to Samos in the Greek Sporades. Just as did Cleopatra and Marc Antony. They paused for at least seven weeks in Samos. Some accounts make it seven months. Would you like to discover what it was they found so fascinating? Try Ako. Ako can take you to all of the stops along Cleopatra's route. Beyond Samos into the central Aegean, to Mykonos and Paros, to Milos and Kithera, to Kephalonia in the Ionian and on to Levkas and Preveza. It was at Preveza that Cleopatra's honeymoon came to an end. Preveza, you see, was then known as Actium, and it was at Actium that the future Caesar Augustus awaited the honeymooners. Cleopatra aside, would you prefer to skip family and instead have a group of friends holiday with you aboard a charter yacht proceeding leisurely from one enchanting Turkish locale to another? Would you like to charter a sailing yacht to cruise further along the Aegean coast of Turkey? Sailing the numerous tracks of Antiochus II who ruled here in the third century before the Christian era. You see, it is almost impossible to escape history at the crossroads of history. Starting in Bodrum, perhaps, where Herodotus wrote the first history, entitled History. Antiochus, it might be noted, was King of Syria and ruler of an empire including much of Anatolia. He regularly cruised the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts of Turkey. You can, too. Antiochus on his final visit never returned home. So enamored with the Seven Wonders Mausoleum in Bodrum he built himself a similar resting place near Ephesus. At Belevi. Take a look while you're visiting Ephesus. It's quite something. And visit the archaeological museum in Izmir for a look at the winged griffins removed from the Belevi tomb. Do all of this and more aboard a charter gulet with an experienced crew able to show you the routes of Cleopatra and Antiochus II, a superb crewed charter gulet sailing Turkey and Greece. Contact Charter Yachts Turkey today at charteryachts@gocekturkey.com