[nilo]

Sail yachts at ancient city harbor Knidos...

I have come across following attractive sail boats at Knidos. I presume the smaller one at the front is a Wally, but I could not figure out what is the impressive larger one. Does anybody have an idea?

[nilo]

I have spotted this Antago at the anchorage of Kaunos, Dalyan Turkey. I suppose she is 33 meter. Is Antago still producing boats, or have they gone out of business?

[nilo]

Some yachts anchored at Mykonos Island.

[nilo]

When autumn comes to Gocek, most of the crowd goes away. In fact, this is the best time of the season, with water temperatures in the range of 23-24 degrees Celsius and very calm days; you feel just like you are on a lake.

Nilo

[nilo]

We had a beautiful evening at Kas this summer. I even had the chance to swim alongside a turtle. There was a magnificent sun set. The small town has some tombs from Lykians, which dates before Christ and some old houses with very nice beugainvillea flowers.

[nilo]

Kekova is the next stop after Kas on the Lykian coast. The city is next to the birth place (Demre) of Saint Nicolas; the character who turned into Santa Claus.

http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=38

There are ruins of a sunken city in the water and several old buildings and tombs dating before Christ. There must have been very strong earthquakes in the area to change the total landscape. The area was inhabited by the Lykians and after spreading of Christianity and acceptance of Christianity by the Eastern Roman Empire, the major culture of the Empire resting on Greek Orthodox Church influenced all cultures in the area and alongside Lykians, others lost their identities melting in the Byzantium pot, until the area is conquered by the Turks. Then quite a large number of these people converted into Islam and started accepting themselves as Turks. During a recent excavation in one of the mountainous ancient sites in the area, Belgian and German archeologists came across some tombs with corpses inside them. They wanted to have a DNA test to compare with the workers at the site, who were inhabitants of the nearby village. The site was dating back to 500 B.C. and 24 of the workers were found to be direct descendents of the buried. This was not welcome by the workers, who claimed that they were very good Moslems and Turks and could not be related to the Byzantium people.

http://www.lycianturkey.com/who_were_the_lycians.htm

[nilo]

It has a mystical flavor.

[YachtForum]

Nice Nilo!

It's Sunday morning, just brewed some fresh coffee, checking new posts and I'm instantly transported to a land I've heard so much about, but never had the privilege of visiting.

Thank you!

[Coenharbour]

Thank you for the nice photo's and interesting story.

Those are some spectacular photographs!

Looks like a fantastic journey, both on land and sea

[nilo]

Originally Posted by CCamper

Nice Nilo!

It's Sunday morning, just brewed some fresh coffee, checking new posts and I'm instantly transported to a land I've heard so much about, but never had the privilege of visiting.

Thank you!

Dear Carl,

Thanks for the compliments, be my guest whenever you decide to visit this side of the world.

Nilo

[nilo]

Dear Coenharbor and Yacht Carousel,

Thanks and naturally the invitation goes for you as well.

Nilo

[burak sozer]

nilo,
really nice photos, thanks for sharing.

[Francois]

Nilo,
Thanks for those great pictures.You live in a beautiful place.This is a yacht paradise and nice bays to anchor.

Francois

[nilo]

This weekend I cruised from Hisaronu Bay, next to Simi Island to Gocek. Another beautiful location for cruising with several small inlets and safe anchorages. It was a very nice day, so I had the chance to take some good pictures. The first set of pictures are from Marti Marina, which is located in Orhaniye. There were a number of Dutch build or designed yachts. You will see the Moonen yacht Maarten, as well as 2 Stentors. I talked to one of the owners, who was very happy with the performance and space availibility of his boat.

Nilo