Kusadasi, Turkey Travel Blogs

5 bombs in 24 hours? Let's go there...
Aug 30, 2006 (24 photos)

... underground. Hope they don't find any evidence of the shit we used to get up to. Anyway = gotta go = the cafe in Kusadasi where I'm writing this letter - the owner's giving me evils. Write me. Do it. Mark " Chapter 2 - So there's an ...

Kusadasi
Sep 21, 2008

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Kusadasi - Bird Island
May 16, 2003 (31 photos)

My first and maybe last Aiesec congress, traveling on a bus down to Izmir region to a sunny and beautiful place called Kusadasi, meaning Bird Island. 60 travelled from IStanbul and many from all other Turkey will join us there for sun, sea, and something ...

Kusadasi
Sep 17, 2008

... I drank the tea, which thankfully had no traces of rohypnol, and was very nice. Another guy wanted to take me on a tour of Kusadasi on his scooter, but I thought I should draw the line there. He wasn't happy that I refused, saying "I'm not a dangerous guy, ...

Day 12 - Last Day of Touring - Ephesus
Jul 10, 2009 (5 photos)

Last Day - Ephesus In true Rick Steves tour fashion, we had a 6:30 a.m. breakfast "call," departed the hotel at 7:30, and arrived at the ruins of Ephesus at 8:15. Again, we were one of the first groups there. I completely recommend getting to these sites ...

Relaxing on the Aegean Coast ... feeling very Euro
Apr 1, 2008 (35 photos)

... ) ended up driving us into town and dropping us off for about 4 hours while we tooled around town and explored. Now Kusadasi has become a rapidly growing tourist destination for cruise ships that operate tours in the Ephesus region. We got to it by ...

Kusadasi
Aug 30, 2009 (61 photos)

Today we arrived in Kusadasi, Turkey. It was a little bit more remote than Istanbul, but very beautiful and there were many sites too see. We decided to try and save some money by finding either a taxi or a tour company that would take us to the sites ...

Lazy Day
Sep 17, 2009 (8 photos)

Well after last nights debauchery we had terrible hang overs and felt really sick so we got up and went down to the hotel bar thing and got an english breakfast with toast and bacon and eggs and these funny sausage things but after that and some coffee ...

The Not-So-High Fashion Show
Nov 27, 2008 (4 photos)

... I am sitting in a cafe in Selcuk right now waiting for a night bus to take me to Urgup in the Cappadocia region of Turkey.  I took a tour of this ancient Roman city Ephesus today and what a disaster that was.  We started the tour in a torrential ...

KoruMar
Mar 14, 2009 (10 photos)

first of two nights at this lovely hotel. It is a summer resort for the locals and the area is a stop for many cruise ships. If the weather was better, I might try to find someone to play tennis with. Instead, I guess I will settle for a massage.

Turkey...if we can!?!?! CANCELED
May 14, 2007

... are on the islands, unfortunately only direct ferries from Athens to islands  than you have to track down transportation to Turkey via turkish companies.  They will nothelp in Greece with info and little is available online.  We do not have ...

Turkey's Marbella?
Dec 15, 2007 (9 photos)

... , Irish wife and their four month old daughter. There was also an older Englishman who was telling Joe and I that Kusadasi is Turkey's Marbella because it's a more upscale crowd, etc. I will have to report that Kusadasi is nowhere near Marbella at all. The ...

Kusadasi
Sep 8, 2008 (2 photos)

... here to visit Ephesus, but yet another set of ruins was not on our agenda, Yes we are sometimes culturally bereft, but Kusadasi also has a lovely relatively small shopping area. What we were not anticipating was the number of cruise ships they can fit in ...

Kusadasi
Aug 12, 2009 (7 photos)

... we were almost at turkey. turkey wasn't as exotic as we had anticipated, but we had a great time. we were in the port of kusadasi. we departed the boat and met our minibus and tour guide, we'll call her ms. x because i cannot remember her name. x was ...

TURKEY - KUSADASI (EPHESUS)
Jun 17, 2007

TURKEY - KUSADASI (EPHESUS) VIEWED THE RUINS OF THE ANCIENT AND NOW UNINHABITED GREEK CITY IN TURKEY OF EPHESUS. THE CITY OF EPHESUS'S HAY DAY WAS FROM 800 BC to 500 BC HOWEVER, IT HAD ANOTHER 700 YEARS - FROM 500 BC to 200 BC AS A VERY ...

From Rugs to Ruins !
Oct 3, 2009 (73 photos)

... ;However, we just weren't in the market for an area rug.  We then used our remaining time in Kusadasi to walk around the city center and do some leisurely browsing through the Grand Bazaar, making a purchase of, you ...

PICTURES OF LISE N DAVID'S ADVENTURE
Jun 17, 2007 (6 photos)

PICTURES LISE HAS TAKEN 700 or 800 PICTURES SO FAR, OR IS IT 800 or 9OO PICTURES, I FORGET.   THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF THE MODERN MIRACLE OF DIGITAL CAMERAS. CLICK ON PICTURES TWICE TO GET FULL SIZE PICTURES. AT THE TOP OF THE PICTURE PAGE ...

Last day of Cruise
Jul 6, 2008

... even public toilets still intact. Near here is where St John and the Virgin Mary are buried. We then headed back to Kusadasi to a carpet factory. Amazing demo but resisted the temptation to buy a carpet-they were so expensive! Back to the boat for ...

Sunday Dınners
Sep 16, 2009 (11 photos)

... fınd the tıcket offıce to get another bus on to Kusadası.  It ıs so easy to get around Turkey and everyone ıs really really helpful so we have not really had any ıssues.  Arrıved at the town and ıt ...

Ephesus
May 9, 2006

Second and last stop in Kusadasi, Turkey. Saw the ruins of Ephesus which are very very old. And fairly intact. It was sooooo old, yet it held 250,000 people at its maximum. I can't remember the correct time, but I'm sure you guys can google it. Anyways ...

Turkey
Aug 26, 2005

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Turkey
Jun 20, 2006 (35 photos)

... of St. John`s church which was apparently quite impressive at its height. A short bus ride has brought me to the town of Kusadasi where I now sit typing this. It`s too much of a resort town, complete with cruise ships, for my liking. However, it is a ...

Ephesus
Jun 12, 2008

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Fabulous Turkey
Sep 14, 2006

The seaside port of Turkey. Tiered condos, huge marina and land of genuine fake and ho hassel here! Also close to Ancient Ephessos and site of one of the seven ancient wonders of the world! 

Day at Sea
Aug 11, 2009 (3 photos)

Aug 11 Day at Sea after all the running around we were looking forward to just a day of doing nothing. the trip from sicily to turkey takes all day all night, so today is our day at sea. we got up, went to the breakfast buffet and then spent pretty much ...

Our first stop - Kusadasi, Turkey
May 27, 2008

... from Cadiz, but will try and get through just as much as we can. When we looked at the ports of call for this trip, Kusadasi was not one that we thought would blow us away.  We were VERY wrong.  As we looked down the list of ship-sponsored ...

Ancient City of Ephesus, Kusadasi, Turkey
Apr 9, 2006 (20 photos)

Next stop, Kusadasi, Turkey Kusadasi was the replacement port of call for Tripoli, Lybia. While negotiations continued for quite some time to allow us into Tripoli, our understanding is that the government refused to allow a "blanket visa," which is ...

Kaleidoscopic Kusadasi
Oct 11, 2009 (10 photos)

H's Notes We woke to find ourselves mooring in Kusadasi. Our tour to Ephesus had been planned for the afternoon so we took ourselves off for a walk along the seafront and out to Pigeon Island which gives Kusadasi its name. The tour to Ephesus was ...

Kusadasi, Turkey - Cruise 3
Jul 15, 2008 (46 photos)

Kusadasi, Turkey feels completely different from Istanbul.  Kusadasi (cush-a-dah-suh) is an island of Turkey and contains the spectacular ruins of Ephesus.  Fortunately a tour needed a crew escort so off I went with 28 other guests to see these ...

Kusadasi, Turkey: Taking it Easy
Oct 31, 2008

Today we are at Kusadasi, Turkey, putting us officially in Asia. The big draw is the ancient site of Ephesus, which is amazing, but I was there recently, so I decided to stay on the ship and take it easy. So there's not much to report. Did laundry, ...