The Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Seas, where you are invited to sail aboard M/S Paluko, are the stuff of legends. They wash the shores of lands where civilization was born, of islands and coves breathtaking in their beauty. These are the seas where Phoenicians, Lelegians, Carians, Lydians, Lycians, Rhodians, Persians and Dorians once sailed, where Athenian and Spartan triremes battled, where Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman ships contested in war and plied in trade.

In more modern times, until extensive tourism was made possible by inexpensive commercial aviation, the shores bordering these seas were seldom visited by Western travelers. Although it is awash in history, filled with superb archaeological sites and blessed with natural beauty and a benign climate, the region really started to be “discovered” only in the 1970s and ‘80s, and what a discovery that was! The PanAmerican Clipper flight magazine dubbed it “The Turkish Turquoise Coast” while Condé Nast TRAVELLER named it the “Cleopatra Coastline”, extolling a cruise in these waters as “Truly, the voyage of a lifetime.” Writing about the same experience a Polish journalist chose “I Was in Paradise” as his title. Now M/S Paluko is ready to take you on just such a voyage, a voyage of a lifetime that will linger on in unforgettable memories. For a brief, inadequate preview of what awaits you click on some of the cruise attractions on the schematic map below. But please note that no description can convey the smell of the sea mingling with the fragrance of wild herbs inhaled as you feast your eyes on sights that were once gazed upon by such giants of history as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony, Cleopatra or the Apostle Paul whose voyages here are well recorded.