Your time aboard Asfiye will likely only be a part of your holiday. Before you embark, or after your cruise is over, an entire country beckons. Few people who visit this country fail to come away without an abiding love for the land and her people. Hospitality is practiced as a fine art here and you will depart your vacation with many new friends who will remain clear in you memory for many years to come. Turkey is the land where East meets West, simultaneously familiar and fantastically exotic, where the land, the people, the sights, sounds, smells and tastes all combine into a mosaic of indescribable complexity and delight.
 

The geography is incomparable: on the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, pine clad mountains wade into the azure sea and ancient cities abound; to the North, steep mountains planted with tea bushes abut the Black Sea; the interior is home to fantastic rock formations and rock cut churches; to the Northeast, grassy steppes are carpeted with wildflowers in the Spring and in the Southeast, palaces perch upon hilltops surveying the dun colored landscape below.
 

Here the modern world exists within an arms reach of the ancient: this is the land of the Gods and Heroes of old: The Judgment of Paris, the Quest for the Golden Fleece. Kings Midas and Croesus ruled here while Aesop wrote his fables. In Turkey Socrates taught, Alexander defeated Darius and Caesar uttered "Veni vidi vici". Antony and Cleopatra spent their honeymoon here; you should consider doing the same. In later days the Byzantine and Ottoman empires held forth as beacons of knowledge while all of Europe sank into the Dark Ages. Istanbul was a glittering city when London and Paris were but muddy villages and in many ways continues to be more sophisticated today.

The abundance of archaeological, natural and cultural treasures, combined with a fabulous climate, make Turkey a fascinating place to discover. Its rapidly growing tourism sector has become a major force in the country's economy, offering endless holiday possibilities. You will find a land and yachting vacation in Turkey to be the ultimate holiday.