Turkey Gulet Cruise: 6 Days Fethiye Blue Cruise

Highlights

• Traditional gület cruise, cove to cove
• Kekova sunken-city swim
• Ölüdeniz blue-lagoon day
• Paragliding option over the lagoon
• On-deck star nights

Is it right for you?

Seniors

Possible for seniors, with care: There's a lot of getting in and out of the water and moving around a boat deck, so it suits seniors who are comfortable with that

Getting around

Little walking

Children

The paragliding flight at Ölüdeniz is an optional add-on, so children stay on the standard swim-and-cove itinerary

From our own trip notes. Tell your captain about anyone's mobility, age or food needs and we confirm the details for your dates.

The story

Your journey outline

Each stage can cover one or more days. Tell us what you would change; your final itinerary is agreed before booking.

1. Stage 01 Fethiye

   Board at Fethiye in the afternoon. A gulet is a wooden two-masted boat built locally for exactly this, with cabins below and most of the living done on deck. The first evening is a short run out to a quiet cove, the anchor down, a swim off the stern, and dinner cooked on board.

2. Stage 02 Butterfly Valley

   South along the coast with swim stops wherever the captain likes the water. Butterfly Valley is a gorge that comes down between cliffs to a beach reachable only by boat, with a walk up the streambed inside it. Afternoons settle into a rhythm of swim, eat, read, swim again.

3. Stage 03 Ölüdeniz

   Oludeniz and the Blue Lagoon, a sheltered bar of water the colour of a swimming pool. Above it is Babadag, at nearly 2,000 metres, the launch point for paragliding over the lagoon: the tandem flight takes about half an hour and lands on the beach next to the boat.

4. Stage 04 Kekova

   Kekova, where a Lycian town slid into the sea in an earthquake nearly two thousand years ago. You snorkel over foundations, staircases and doorways in clear shallow water, then look up at the castle at Simena on the hillside, which is still lived under and has a handful of tombs standing in the bay.

5. Stage 05 Coves

   The last full day is coves and nothing else, which by this stage of a gulet week is exactly what everyone wants. A final swim, the captain's dinner on deck, and the option of sleeping on a mattress up top under a sky with no light pollution anywhere near it.

6. Stage 06 The Return

   Disembark at Fethiye in the morning and transfer for the flight home. Six days on a wooden boat, a coastline with a sunken city in it, and legs that have forgotten what shoes are for.

Know before you go

• Turkey e-visa for Indian passports needs a valid Schengen, UK, US or Ireland visa or residence permit, and other conditions apply; without one, a sticker visa from a Turkish mission is the route in
• GST and TCS are shown in your written quote

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Why book with Travelers Clan

• Your own itinerary. This is a starting point — we agree your route and pace before booking.
• Paperwork guidance. Visa requirements and applicable taxes confirmed in your quote.
• Clear payment terms. Deposit and cancellation conditions set out before payment.
• Know your support. Your final plan confirms local contacts and any guide or trip-captain services.