Kusadasi
Travel Blogs from Kusadasi, Turkey
Easy to be in Kusadasi
... homes. Then the bubble burst leaving lots of unfinished buildings and a rather sad looking landscape in a few places. Kusadasi was neither sad nor unfinished. In fact we found it quite delightful – a medium sized city filled with ...
5 bombs in 24 hours? Let's go there...
... 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 - Bird Island
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 ...
Relaxing on the Aegean Coast ... feeling very Euro
... ) 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
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
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 ...
Kusadasi: Bird Island
... ; has a huge bird monument standing at the harbor shoreline. Having been to Ephesus in April, we opted to explore Kusadasi. Most businesses weren’t open when we started and the streets were pretty much deserted. We headed to ...
KoruMar
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 ...
Turkey...if we can!?!?! CANCELED
... 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 ...
Turkey's Marbella?
... young, 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 ...
Kusadasi
... 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 ...
Kusadasi
... 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 ...
From Rugs to Ruins !
... ;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 ...
Last day of Cruise
... and 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 ...
Türkiye
... food yet. Saturday: the pool and walked around. We were still recovering from that 26 hour bus trip from Belgrade Serbia to kusadasi turkey. Sunday: we went to the waterpark today! We thought it would be crazier in Turkey and it was. Waterparks here ...
The Not-So-High Fashion Show
... 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 ...
Day 244 - Exploring Pigeon Island
We eased into the day and a light breakfast of local fresh fruit Mia had bought the night before. After an easy walk from our hotel we found the 100m pier which led out to a small island and the 14th century Genoese Fort that occupied its entire ...
Day 243 - Trying to Go 'Local' in Kusadasi
Our transit today was much simpler than the last leg down the Turkish coast. We arrived in Kusadasi (pr. Ku-sha-deh-see) just after noon after an enjoyable dolomus ride on secondary roads through the Turkish countryside. We got off in a very touristic ...
Sunday Dınners
... to 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 ...
Ephesus
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. ...
Who shall have a fishy?
... meant that we beat the worst of the crowds at Ephesus … and the heat. Our guide gave us a lot of information about Kusadasi and Turkey, as well as explaining what we were seeing in Ephesus. Of course, the library was the highlight for me (and most ...
Turkey
... ruins 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 ...
My Life in Ruins....
... with that <grin>. Tomorrow we take a 20 minute ride from Kusadasi to the ancient city of Ephesus and then back to Kusadasi for our last night in Turkey. Lots more rock and sun pictures below for those inclined :) ...
Fabulous Turkey
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 ...
Day at Sea
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 ...
Our first stop - Kusadasi, Turkey
... 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 ...
Kusadasi, Turkey - Cruise 3
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 ...


