Selcuk, Turkey Travel Blogs

Ruins, Turkish buses and used car dealers
Aug 24, 2006 (7 photos)

... 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 experience in ...

Return to Selçuk
Aug 21, 2005 (11 photos)

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
Nov 4, 2006 (1 photos)

... on we went. We eventually landed at the Otgor (bus statıon) and caught our next bus. A nıne and a half hour bus rıde over nıght to Selçuk. So what I want to know is thıs.... is ıt old age (relatıvley speakıng) beıng a Mom or ıs ıt just me? I feel as though I have ...

Ephesus- day two
Aug 12, 2007 (22 photos)

... 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 than I was ...

More Ruins
Oct 19, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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 the ...

Ephesus and the Mystery woman
Apr 28, 2006 (25 photos)

... 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 ...

Hey Aussie, You Want Carpet ?
Jul 15, 2006 (8 photos)

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 they' ...

Morgans Bad day
Nov 5, 2006 (4 photos)

... to see the ruıns. That was a lot of fun. They are really neat. I wıll post pıctures when I can. We decıded to get out of Selçuk quıckly and left the next day for Pamukkale and the thermal water. We spoıled ourselves a bıt and went on a tour. We enjoyed our tour ...

Three days four nights
Apr 9, 2003 (2 photos)

... ?, 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 for ...

Dalyan to Selcuk, Visit to Sirince
Nov 29, 2007 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

Ephesus and Efes
Jul 29, 2007 (19 photos)

... 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 ...

Selcuk
Sep 22, 2008 (24 photos)

... 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 ...

Selcuk......A backpackers vllage in the mountains
Aug 8, 2005 (6 photos)

... in a huge garage and off came the tyre! it was hilarious if we diddnt laugh we would have cried!! Eventually we arrived in Selçuk and the hostel arranged a taxi to collect us from the Otogar, we drove up into the mountains to where we are staying.....an ...

Meat and Egg Pide
Aug 23, 2005 (7 photos)

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
Jul 25, 2004

... 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 our ...

Selcuk's sights unveil themselves
Dec 1, 2007 (10 photos)

... 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 road to ...

A Virgin, a Turk, and a Saint Walk Into a Bar....
Sep 2, 2006 (13 photos)

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 ...

Selcuk and Ephesus
Nov 3, 2000 (9 photos)

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 Library, ...

Goodbye Turkey
May 12, 1998

... were American and I think if we had beat them in the head, they still would not have got it. We had decided we would stay in Selcuk at the Australian and New Zealand Pension. As we walked out, a guy grabbed us and said he could take us to a guest house, I ...

Hello all am currently in selcuk down the ...
Nov 11, 2000

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 ...

Ephesus... Seeing the Site...
Aug 5, 2008

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
May 16, 2009 (5 photos)

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 a ...

Ephesus
May 6, 2005 (12 photos)

... 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 these ...

James Bday, Ephesus, and oil wrestling
May 5, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 there, ...

Soke-Kusadasi-Selcuk-Ephesus-Artemis vs. St. Paul
Nov 22, 2008 (39 photos)

... 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 in a ...

Canakkale to Selcuk / Ephesus
Jul 16, 2009

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Selcuk
Jun 13, 2006 (12 photos)

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Selçuk
Oct 28, 2007

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Selcuk and Ephesus
Jun 3, 2008 (25 photos)

... cruise along. We primarily traveled to the small city of Selcuk to visit one of the best-preserved classical cities in Turkey - Ephesus.  People first settled the area in about 600 BC.  Alexander the Great traveled through in 334 BC ...

Selcuk Ephasus
Jun 23, 2007 (10 photos)

... café under an ancient Roman aqueduct, complete with nesting storks as seems to be the go around Europe. We noticed that Selcuk is more traditionally Turkish than the ritzy south-west coast peninsula where we had just hailed from and also much smaller. We ...