Canberra Hotel Selcuk
Ataturk Bulvari, 1067 Sokak no.15 Selcuk, Izmir, 35920, Turkey
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Ephesus!
... lunch. After lunch it was time for us to part ways, they were headed to Istanbul and I had to start working my to Athens, Greece. I hopped on a mini bus that took me to Izmir then I had to get me a bus ticket to Cesme, Turkey where I would be able to find a ferry headed to Chios, Greece which is a Greek island off the coast of Turkey. I didn't make it to Cesme in time to catch the ferry so I started searching the backstreets for an economical place to ...
Ephesus - grand Roman site
... was about a kilometre and a half. But we still had plenty of time so we thought that we would walk slowly up to the top of the site and then read everything as we came back, but we soon noticed that we were actually going down hill. Some careful map reading later led us to conclude that we had somehow ended up at the top of the site - the bit furthest from town, which partly explains our slow trip - so we decided to go back and read ...
What have the Romans ever done for us ?
... used to flow before it silted-up – a green, marshy expanse spreading across the valley floor below. Today a main road runs along-side the valley, following the ancient waterway to the sea.
All in all, exploring Ephesus was an amazing experience, and brings to mind once again – the more things change the more they stay the same – people today are not really living and working that differently from 2000 years ago. Have a look through Ephesus to see what I mean ...
Busing It
... private bus." This private bus booked through a company called “Hassle Free” turned out to be anything but “hassle free.” There were eight of us, a few Kiwis, a couple of Aussies, Justin and I and as part of the tour was scheduled to stop at Bergama, a famous Roman ruin along the way for an hour and half. Meanwhile, everything that could go wrong did. For starters, the bus came equipped with a guide who escorted some of the folks on the bus from ...
Ephusus
... became the second largest city of the Roman empire. Toured the ruins of Baths of Varius, Odeon, Prytaneion, Fountain of Polio, The Gate of Heracles, State of Agora, Temple of Hadrian, Temple of Domitian, Library of Celsus, The Great Theatre and Harbour Street with the Necropoles. The original ruins in this area began in 6000BC
Ephusus contains the largest collection of roman ruins in the ...



