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Selcuk Slideshow
Top Hotels in Selcuk
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Surmeli Efes Hotel Selcuk
517 reviews -
Ephesus Princess Hotel Selcuk
91 reviews
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Hotel Kalehan Selcuk
105 reviews
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Artemis Selcuk
48 reviews -
Tamsa Pamucak Selcuk
1 review
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Canberra Hotel Selcuk
75 reviews
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Victoria Hotel Selcuk
4 reviews
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Cenka Hotel Selcuk
7 reviews -
Zeus Pension Selcuk
1 review
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Panorama-Hotel Rilican Selcuk
1 review
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Esra Pansiyon Selcuk
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Hitit Hotel Selcuk
30 reviews
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Nur Pension Selcuk
25 reviews -
Hotel Akay Selcuk
128 reviews
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Hotel Bella Selcuk
390 reviews
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Hotel Nazar Selcuk
142 reviews
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Hotel Nilya Selcuk
129 reviews
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Hotel Pinar Selcuk
3 reviews
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Jimmy's Place Selcuk
191 reviews
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Rilican Hotel Selcuk
1 review
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Urkmez Hotel Selcuk
192 reviews
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Hotel Sirince Evleri Selcuk
39 reviews
Selcuk
Travel Blogs from Selcuk, Turkey
Ruins, Turkish buses and used car dealers
This is a top pick! ... ran the Venus Hotel were unbelievably helpful and gracious. Actually, our experience with pretty everyone we have encountered in Turkey has been glowingly positive. People here have been universally warm, cordial, and helpful and really made our ...
Return to Selçuk
This is a top pick! The bus journey from Istanbul was a shocker. Really long and very uncomfortable. But there was a bus boy who served as much cold water, coke, tea or coffee as you wanted!!! AND he makes sure you get kicked off at the correct stop! Brilliant! We ...
Night Bus
This is a top pick! İ presume a lot have you have seen the Harry Potter movıes. Do you remember the scenes wıth the Night bus? (BTW Im typıng on an arabıc key board so bare with mistakes) SO we left the Istanbul hostel on a dolmus (15 seat mini van) to the bus ...
More Ruins
This is a top pick! ... this is not a large town and we saw may people driving tractors through the streets. We came to Selcuk to visit Ephesus, yet more ancient ruins in Turkey, dating to 800 BC. Our guidebook describes Ephesus as the "best-preserved classical city in ...
Hey Aussie, You Want Carpet ?
This is a top pick! The march through Turkey continues. Well we're in Selcuk at the moment for no other purpose than to see Ephesus which has been described as the finest example of Greek ruins (with Roman renovations apparently) anywhere in the world. The fact that ...
Ephesus and the Mystery woman
This is a top pick! ... woman again, who some of you will remember from travels in Egypt, which promises to make the trail through southern Turkey to Cappadocia a pleasant and pleasurable experience indeed. It should also entail some very interesting sights so I hope you stick ...
Morgans Bad day
This is a top pick! So we arrıved ın Selçuk got off the nıght bus and after ıt drove off Morgan realızed he had left hıs favourıte hat (a blue baseball hat from Quıck sılver--hınt hıs bırthday ıs comıng up....) on the bus. Then on the way to our hostel ...
Three days four nights
This is a top pick! ... guys?, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Malaysia, England (that's me ;)), Australia, America, and of course Turkey). We caught the luxurious Nilufer coach from Istanbul late on Friday night and said goodbye to chaotic Istanbul in search ...
3 lunches but why?
This is a top pick! Leaving in the morning we headed South and soon found ourselves in Troy. This was a pretty cool place and we wandered around for a while learning about the history of the city. I climbed inside a giant Trojan horse and photo-bombed a bunch of tourists. ...
Dalyan to Selcuk, Visit to Sirince
This is a top pick! ... of the pensions. Unfortunately they are more than double what we have paid for better accommodation elsewhere in Turkey so we gave them a miss and headed back to Selcuk. I decided that the best action would be to park the car and wander around town until ...
Nik turning 13 in Turkey!
This is a top pick! Can’t believe we are almost at the end of our trip. I’m both excited to go home and see family and friends but I'm also sad that the trip is coming to an end. Its strange that I feel so much more comfortable being on the road than ...
Selcuk......A backpackers vllage in the mountains
This is a top pick! ... ,and looks beautiful, its expensive but seems to be the backpacker thing to do here so we booked on....means we shall be in Turkey longer than originally planned.....but we dont need to be in Cairo until the 24th september for a flight so we have a ...
Ephesus and Efes
This is a top pick! ... arriving in large A/C busses! Ephesus is called the best preserved classical city in the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey's premier tourist site. The city had running water, public toilets, a renowned medical institute, brothel and roman ...
Ephesus- day two
This is a top pick! ... We learned that if you show up on your own without a guide that everything is 50% off! So, folks, if you ever come to Turkey, never shop with a guide! The good news is that I was still more impressed with the ceramics that I saw and bought in Capadoccia ...
Selcuk
This is a top pick! ... well, and which in retrospect was probably the most wonderful location we stayed in in all of Turkey, complete with antique furniture, good food and charming hosts. Selcuk used to be a sleepy little town a few decades ago, but was transformed by the ...
Meat and Egg Pide
This is a top pick! 1) Kneed the Pide 2) Place the meat into the Pide 3) Place the Pide into the wood fired oven 4) Once the dish is nearly done, pull it out and place an egg on to it 5) Place it back into the oven 6) Pull out after a couple of minutes. 7) ...
Chapter 45: Turkish history lessons
This is a top pick! ... ended up hanging out until midnight. The next day Mike, Andre, and I took a tour bus to Pamukkale/Heiropolis, which is 3 hours from Selcuk. We didn't actually pay for the tour, though, so the bus dropped us off at the site so we could wander around on ...
Selcuk's sights unveil themselves
This is a top pick! ... in Selcuk and then visited the Isabey Mosque and the Church of St Jean (John), which is a ruin and holds a commanding place above Selcuk centre. We found this site intriguing too. By this time evening was descending and we took a drive about 8km down the ...
A Virgin, a Turk, and a Saint Walk Into a Bar....
This is a top pick! I took a night bus from Instanbul to a town called Selcuk. The town itself is somewhat unremarkable, but is only three kilometres from one of the greatest ruins of the ancient world, Ephesus. When our bus was leaving the Sultanmanet area of Istanbul last ...
Busing It
... a couple of hours away from our destination, we stopped for dinner, prolonging our arrival by another hour. We finally arrived to Selcuk at midnight, and although I thought I wanted to stay in Kusadasi, I checked into the same hotel as the Aussies and ...
Ephesus
Selcuk is the town just at the base of Ephesus, otherwise there isn't much else there. Mehmet from the restaurant below offers free shuttle to the ruins so we piled up for a late afternoon visit. These really are very complete from 352BC. Upon entering I ...
Goodbye Turkey
This is a top pick! We arrived in Kusadasi, well the customs actually and as we already had visas for Turkey we were sorted, but there was this American couple who you could tell were going to be in trouble. They were going to Turkey for the day and when told they had to pay ...
Hello all am currently in selcuk down the ...
This is a top pick! Hello all am currently in Selcuk down the west coast of Turkey. A couple of days ago i left istanbul with a bus going to Cannakale which is across the Dardanelles from the Gallipoli peninsula. Visit the beaches where the Anzacs etc landed in ...
Selcuk and Ephesus
This is a top pick! Selcuk near the coast of Turkey was the base for us to explore the Roman ruins of Ephesus, which in their day were only outshone by Athens. The large site 3km from Selcuk did not disappoint. The most impressive features of the site were the Celsus ...
Ephesus
... (main bus station) by around 9am, and transferred to a dolmus heading to Selcuk. The gateway to Ephesus. Selcuk is located in the South Aegean region of Turkey. It was an hour and a half dolmus ride from Bergama. Upon arriving, I quickly located my ...
Ephesus... Seeing the Site...
Ephesus is often coined as one of the greatest ruined cities of the western world... simply put... It is just that... a great ruined city... filled with buildings constructed to shelter, entertain and amaze... strewn with signs of human existence... ...
Down to Selcuk
Having already made some guesthouse arrangements in Selcuk, we weren't sure what the best way to get down there would be. It's about 8 hours by bus, but we would have to leave at night, which didn't quite work with what we'd planned. We opted instead for ...
Ephesus
... stayed in the nearby town of Selcuk, and found a really friendly run hotel, with a lady who cooked amazing local food. Selcuk was unique because it had ancient pillars in the town centre (from ruined buildings) that storks nested on, so we watched ...
James Bday, Ephesus, and oil wrestling
... made our way by bus to a town called Kusadasi (a tourist trap that we didn't stay in, instead going to a small town called Selcuk). On James Birthday we went to the phenomenal ruins of Ephesus. I'll just give a sampling of the 85 pics that we took ...
Soke-Kusadasi-Selcuk-Ephesus-Artemis vs. St. Paul
... wandered around for about 3 hours - took pictures of countless things that we can't remember and then walked back around 3 K to Selcuk to encounter rain and a lovely weekly market where we bought fruit and cashews and got wet before having a snack ...