Turkey
travel report visit Kusadasi by Yacht
If
you are sailing or on a yacht-holiday with a motoryacht or a traditional
Gulet, Kusadasi (adasi = island of kus=birds), will surely be worth a stopover.
There
is a nice, small and safe Setur
Marina but no charterbase is located here - the next ones can be
found in Cesme or down in Bodrum in
the ports of Yalikavak, Turgut Reis or Bodrum-City or
the greek island of Samos.
Some companies from the south or the one from Cesme offer oneway-trips from Cesme
to the southeast or from Bodrum up or they bring boats to Kusadasi, but that
is always a high extra expense to be considered for the calculation of your yachtcharter
holiday. However: it might be woth the money, because sailing from Kusadasi via
the greek islands and back to the Guelluek-Golf to Bodrum is a very nice sailing-experience
with always winds from back or half, and never needs tacking at all! The area
is very recommendable for families and sailing beginners, because winds between
4-6
Bft
are
very
nice
to handle for holiday-sailors and their often not very in sailing experienced
family
members.
The
town Kusadasi itself is a charming mixture between oriental atmosphere and
modern tourism.
One
can enjoy many bars,
restaurants and hundreds of shops in the pretty commercial bazaar, which
is more a modern torusim shopping center, than it was years ago as a typical
bazaar, today mostly all the big Cruisers stop here to send their guests
from Kusadasi to famous Ephesus, which
is not
far
a way.
This
made
the
city
grow
very much
in the
last years, and the close distance to the town of Izmir makes it a weekend-spot
for wealthy turkish as well. The new highway shortens the time to come
over to 30-45 minutes. The international airport of Izmir is connected to
all
big european cities.
Several
Taxis offer round-trips to Ephesus, but note: better try to rent a car,
which can often be obtained cheaper for 1 day (the road to Ephesus is very
good and it´s easy to find!), or get a taxi from a taxistand close to the
Marina or better ask the Marina staff
for
assistance.
Some Taxidrivers
(especially the
ones
close
to
the Cruising-ships!) try to
collect a fortune, others are fair in pricing.
Try to go to Ephesus early in the morning,
especially in summertime and take the advantage, that it is not so hot and
full with people yet!
Tourist trap: if you go by bus or with a car, and arrive
at the entrance and parking, several guys will offer "free transportation"
to
the other side or back...
the
point
is: when
you
visit
Ephesus,
you can walk
through the ancient site and then you have to make all the way back, which
might be
too
much
for
some
people
(especially
in summer heat),
so
they
want only to make ONE way through and then leave the area on the other side.
But how will you come back to the carparking?
Some guys offer a free
ride to
the other side or back from the other side for that as a "free service" -
but they
will
stop
at
a
sales-store for leather, glass or carpets and try to sell you something.
You are not obliged
to buy anything, but the pressure is not very nice to some people, so only
take that offer, if you want to buy something or if you are able to say "no",
if you
mean "no" without any problem... turkish are salesmen, never forget that!
You can have a preview about Ephesus here
Choose
from here below your next destination
From
Kusadasi, you can sail to Cesme (35
nm WNW), or to the bay of Gümüslük (45
nm SSE) at the turkish
coast or to the greek island Samos-Vathy or to the Port ans Marina
of Samos-Pythagoreion
(12 nm),
which isas well Port of Entry to Greece. |
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