Turkey boasts innumerable top-notch attractions, and we’ve spent the past couple of decades honing and perfecting our journeys to this welcoming land. The beautifully bizarre limestone karsts and cave towns of Cappadocia are a favorite (there are unique landscapes, and then there is Cappadocia). Ruin-hopping—Aphrodisias and Ephesus, to name two of many—is at its best in Turkey. Istanbul, capital of empires, offers many astoundments: the Topkapi Palace, the Hagia Sophia, and the Blue Mosque. “Istanbul is alone and tremendous,” wrote Sacheverell Sitwell. “A sensational revelation ... no water city can compare to it.” We sail the Sapphire Seas, some of the world’s most salubrious maritime sceneries, in our gulets, marvelous and marvelously accoutred schooners, the finest in the business. And throughout Turkey our guides are boon and wise companions who remind us of the old saying “To call a Turk gracious is needlessly repetitive.”