All About Peter Sommer Travels
| Summary: Since 1996, Peter Sommer Travels has offered "unique escorted tours" and cruises around Turkey and Greece. |
There’s no better way to experience Turkey and all its treasures than on a once in a lifetime archaeological tour with a renowned archaeologist, filmmaker, and tour guide. Peter Sommer is an award-winning documentary producer, with an intense passion for everything Turkish and Greek. In 1994, Sommer walked 2,000 miles across Turkey, as he retraced the route of Alexander the Great. During this time, Sommer “fell in love with the country, its ancient civilizations, and the Turkish people.” Two years after Sommer completed his travels, he founded Peter Sommer Travels. Since 1996, Peter Sommer Travels has offered “unique escorted tours” and cruises around Turkey and Greece.
Peter Sommer Travels Tours
Peter Sommer Travels offers Tours & Gulet Cruises as well as Gulet Charters. Each year, Peter Sommer Travels features an impressive list of tour guides to lead its expert led gulet cruises, archaeological tours, and historical tours of Turkey and Greece. For 2009 and the first half of 2010, the guide list includes: Dr. Michael Metcalfe and Dr. Nigel Spivey, a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, and Serdar Akerdem and Dr. Alan Greaves, lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.
The 2009 tour schedule (August 29 – October 31) features the following tours:
Halicarnassus to Ephesus (full),
Sailing the Lycian Shore
Writing & Sailing in Caria
Western Lycia Cruise (full)
Walking and Sailing the Lycian Shore
The Bodrum Cup Regatta
From Bodrum to Didyma
Cruising the Ceramic Gulf Family Trip
The 2010 Tour Schedule (April 17-October 31) features the following tours:
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
Springtime in Pamphylia – a land based adventure
Cruising the Southern Dodecanese
Cruising the Carian Coast
A Gastronomic Gulet Cruise
Sailing to Ephesus family
Cruising the Northern Dodecanese
Sailing the Lycian Shore
Sailing to Ephesus
Carian Coast – 1 week
Family cruise – Sailing Western Lycia
Sailing the Sicilian Shore
Cruising to Dodecanese
From Halicarnassus to Ephesus
Sailing to Western Lycia
Walking and Sailing the Lycian Shore
Cruising the Ceramic Gulf family trip
Peter Sommer Travels Gulet Charters
The Turkish sailing season runs from April until the end of October. Low season is spring and October and high season is summer. Prices will vary by season. Peter Sommer Travels offers a variety of gullets for charter, ranging from small to large. The company works with a wide variety of gulet owners, so they can accommodate everything from small families to large groups. Guests can charter the 8-cabin Almira, which is used for all PST scheduled escorted cruises; the 4-cabin Aquavit, or the 2-cabin Aquarius. Guests that may be interested in a larger gulet can also choose from the company’s list of owners.
The gulet Almira is the most popular PST gulet. It is considered “one of the best constructed and equipped yachts of its kind.” Almira was handmade in Turkey “from pine from the Taurus Mountains and mahogany.” “It follows a design developed for {Turkish} waters in Byzantine times. She is stylish, graceful, and bursting with character.”
Crewed yacht charters are readily available and consist of a full crew: a captain, cook, and deck hands. Additional deck hands are available depending on the size of the boat. PST offers provides “additional logistical support, from airport transfers and minibuses” to transport guests into the interior to local guides that can give guests a tour of the archaeological sites.
Gulet Cruises: What to Expect
Gulet cruises are typically three hours long. Guests can expect to engage in activities such as swimming, snorkeling, sunning and windsurfing. Mealtimes are festive events filled with local delicacies and Turkish wines. A typical breakfast on a gulet cruise may consist of bread, tomatoes, olives, cheese, eggs, yogurt, and honey. Lunch and dinner may consist of one of two main courses, accompanied by salads and mezes, followed by fruit.
What is a Gulet?
The word ‘gulet’ probably derives from the French goulette, or schooner. These two-masted wooden vessels, usually made from local pine, were long used for transport and fishing along the southern coasts of Turkey. Typically designed with a sharp bow, broad beam and rounded aft. Today these days they are designed and fitted with comfort and not trade in mind. -Petersommertravel.com
How to Book a Gulet Cruise or Charter
If you would like more information about Peter Sommer Travels offerings, you can contact PST by email, fax or phone.
Peter Sommer Travels
Suite 2
96 Monnow Street
Monmouth
NP25 3EQ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1600 888 220
Fax: +44 (0)1600 888 221
Email: info@petersommer.com
Brochures and schedules can be viewed online through the official Peter Sommer Travels website or you may request a brochure online or by phone, fax, or email.