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Blue Yoyage, a very relaxing way to spend the best time of the year - your holiday!

The wooden boat, called gület (between 15 and 30 meters length), can accommodate up to 20 guests in double cabins, each having its own shower and toilette. Usually, they sail some hours a day, the rest of the day people enjoy water activities or go for a nice sightseeing trip.

The crew, captain, cook and deckshand, follows a general route, lasting - up to you 1, 2 or more weeks. Guests can modificate the route and stays. Only the destination harbour is fixed.

People are allowed to join the work on board or simply relax. Mostly, the gülets will stay overnight in bays, right in the middle of nowhere...

Mavi Yolculuk (Blue Voyage), a term first used by the turkish author and poet Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli, who was born 1886 in Crete and died 1973 in Izmir.

1925 he wrote an article in the newspaper “Resimli Hafta” (Week in Pictures) hitting the nerve of the government in a way that he was exiled to Bodrum. Today, we would say, he appreciated more and more his “open arrest” and enjoyed the “blue voyages” with the fishermen. As the authorities noticed his feeling so happy and well in Bodrum, the last part of the exil he had to spent in Istanbul!!!

1957 he settled down in Bodrum, where he started to romanticize in his novels and books about the blue voyages, stories about fisherman and the sea; ancient history too.

End of the 70’ fishermen started to pep up their boats to accommodate guest for a cruise – the birth of a fleet of gülets started.