During our stay, where we will spend three nights at the wonderful Anatolian Houses, a luxury hotel built out of the living rock, we will explore the rock dwellings, monasteries, churches and other sites.
We then travel to the coast, stopping first in Konya. From Konya, we will continue to the port city of Antalya, stopping on the way at two superb ancient sites Aspendos and Perge.
Our first stop will be Finike, our gateway to Myra, an ancient Lydian city with impressive remains and the Church of St. Nicholas.
Entering the Aegean Sea, we reach Rhodes, the island dedicated to Helios, the sun god, and site of the Colossus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Kos, the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of medicine; Kalimnos, known for its beautiful marine landscapes
Amorgos, one of the most attractive of the Cycladic islands and site of a spectacular 11th-century monastery that hangs from the side of a cliff
Santorini, perhaps the most unique island in the entire Mediterranean, that was home to a sophisticated society during the Bronze Age.
Conclude the cruise in Heraklion, on the great island of Crete, which was home to the brilliant Minoan civilization, the earliest civilization in Europe.
Day 1: Depart for Kayseri, Turkey
Day 2: Kayseri | Cappadocia
Transfer to the hotel
Day 3 & 4: Cappadocia
Explore the rock dwellings, churches and monasteries
Day 5: Konya
Drive to Konya
Guided tour of the city
Mevlana Museum
Day 6: Konya | Aspendos | Perge | Antalya |Embark Ship
Town of Antalya
Ancient site of Aspendos
Ancient site of Perge
Embark Ship
Day 7: Finike
Explore the town of Myra
Myra’s Byzantine church
Day 8: Rhodes, Greece
Walk through Old Town
Street of the Knights
Rhodes Archaeological Museum
Village of Lindos
Temple of Athena Lindia
Columns of the Hellenistic stoa
Day 9: Kos | Kalimnos
Ancient site of Asclepeion
Town of Pothia
Nautical Museum
Sanctuary of Apollo Dalios
Day 10: Amorgos
1,000-year-old monastery of Panaghia Chozoviotissa
Day 11: Santorini
Excavated site of Akrotiri
Museum of Prehistoric Thera
Free time: explore the town of Phira
Day 12: Heraklion, Crete
Palace of Knossos
Royal Apartments
Heraklion Museum
Day 13: Heraklion | Disembark Ship
Transfer to the airport
Sidonie Smith is the Lorna G. Goodison Distinguished University Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, and Past President of the Modern Language Association of America (2010). Her major research interest is in autobiography/life writing studies, with specialties in women’s life writing, life writing and human rights, and a range of contemporary genres of life writing in textual, graphic, performance, and online media. Her publications include many essays and books, including A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation (1987), Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women’s Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century (1993), and Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times (2015). With Kay Schaffer, she coauthored Human Rights and Narrated Lives (2004). With Julia Watson, she co-authored Reading Autobiography: A Guide to Interpreting Life Narratives (2010 second expanded edition) and Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith & Watson Autobiography Studies Reader (2017); and co-edited four volumes of critical essays. She grew up in a western suburb of Cleveland; received her BA and MA from the University of Michigan and her 1971 PhD from Case Western Reserve University. Across her career, she taught at Roosevelt University, the University of Arizona, Binghamton University, before returning to the University of Michigan in 1996. She has a long history of administrative positions at the deaconal, departmental, program, and institute levels.
Highlights
During our stay, where we will spend three nights at the wonderful Anatolian Houses, a luxury hotel built out of the living rock, we will explore the rock dwellings, monasteries, churches and other sites.
We then travel to the coast, stopping first in Konya. From Konya, we will continue to the port city of Antalya, stopping on the way at two superb ancient sites Aspendos and Perge.
Our first stop will be Finike, our gateway to Myra, an ancient Lydian city with impressive remains and the Church of St. Nicholas.
Entering the Aegean Sea, we reach Rhodes, the island dedicated to Helios, the sun god, and site of the Colossus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Kos, the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of medicine; Kalimnos, known for its beautiful marine landscapes
Amorgos, one of the most attractive of the Cycladic islands and site of a spectacular 11th-century monastery that hangs from the side of a cliff
Santorini, perhaps the most unique island in the entire Mediterranean, that was home to a sophisticated society during the Bronze Age.
Conclude the cruise in Heraklion, on the great island of Crete, which was home to the brilliant Minoan civilization, the earliest civilization in Europe.
Itinerary
Day 1: Depart for Kayseri, Turkey
Day 2: Kayseri | Cappadocia
Transfer to the hotel
Day 3 & 4: Cappadocia
Explore the rock dwellings, churches and monasteries
Day 5: Konya
Drive to Konya
Guided tour of the city
Mevlana Museum
Day 6: Konya | Aspendos | Perge | Antalya |Embark Ship
Town of Antalya
Ancient site of Aspendos
Ancient site of Perge
Embark Ship
Day 7: Finike
Explore the town of Myra
Myra’s Byzantine church
Day 8: Rhodes, Greece
Walk through Old Town
Street of the Knights
Rhodes Archaeological Museum
Village of Lindos
Temple of Athena Lindia
Columns of the Hellenistic stoa
Day 9: Kos | Kalimnos
Ancient site of Asclepeion
Town of Pothia
Nautical Museum
Sanctuary of Apollo Dalios
Day 10: Amorgos
1,000-year-old monastery of Panaghia Chozoviotissa
Day 11: Santorini
Excavated site of Akrotiri
Museum of Prehistoric Thera
Free time: explore the town of Phira
Day 12: Heraklion, Crete
Palace of Knossos
Royal Apartments
Heraklion Museum
Day 13: Heraklion | Disembark Ship
Transfer to the airport
Journey
Host
Sidonie Smith is the Lorna G. Goodison Distinguished University Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, and Past President of the Modern Language Association of America (2010). Her major research interest is in autobiography/life writing studies, with specialties in women’s life writing, life writing and human rights, and a range of contemporary genres of life writing in textual, graphic, performance, and online media. Her publications include many essays and books, including A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation (1987), Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women’s Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century (1993), and Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times (2015). With Kay Schaffer, she coauthored Human Rights and Narrated Lives (2004). With Julia Watson, she co-authored Reading Autobiography: A Guide to Interpreting Life Narratives (2010 second expanded edition) and Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith & Watson Autobiography Studies Reader (2017); and co-edited four volumes of critical essays. She grew up in a western suburb of Cleveland; received her BA and MA from the University of Michigan and her 1971 PhD from Case Western Reserve University. Across her career, she taught at Roosevelt University, the University of Arizona, Binghamton University, before returning to the University of Michigan in 1996. She has a long history of administrative positions at the deaconal, departmental, program, and institute levels.
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Oct. 12–24, 2022
(13 days)
Starting price: $7,890
SINGLE OCCUPANCY: A few cabins in Categories C and B are available for single occupancy at a supplement of 150% of the per person double occupancy rate.
