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Golden Sun Sámos

, Kokkari Sámos, Northeast Aegean Islands, 831 00, Greece

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Ruins of Ephesus -

A travel blog entry by jimstephkrueger

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... dark red. Monroe thinks he needs to get his pocketknife out and lance it - ugh!!


Jim and I head to a local 'supermarket' to stock up on some bar supplies and he takes that back to the ship and I spend a couple of hours wandering in the bazaar. I realize immediately that Kusadasi is a tourist town - the prices were more than double what we had in Istanbul so there isn't anything that I could even remotely justify purchasing. I ...

Could You Run That By Me One More Time?

A travel blog entry by trockie

... one too many first row rock concerts) so I translated when necessary. Now the easy solution would have been for Doug to have moved in closer to Yizmir, however Doug later shared with me that he did not want to do so due to Yizmir's poor dental hygiene. News to me but Doug evidently possesses dental bias. Dentist's kid- go figure!

When the tour concluded we returned to Selcuk, had lunch and then, because Doug's hunger for historical learning was not ...

Ephesus, Virgin Mary, and Cruise Ships OH MY!

A travel blog entry by abalzer

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... leads to the Grand Theater. The Street of Marble was the main street of Ephesus and its primary used was for religious or ceremonial processions. The Grand Theater was built to accommodate 25,000 people. The theater was a significant social center in the lives of the people of Ephesus. Plays and assembly’s took place at the theater, in fact St. Paul was once asked to speak there. During his speech he encourage ...

Andrew breaks his bike and we see awesome ruins.

A travel blog entry by clarf

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... tomb at the center among them is regarded to have belonged to St. John. Nevertheless, no ruins cold be found at the tomb during excavations. It is already known that they have been empty since the 13th century and that the holy relics had earlier been transported to the Havarian Church in Istanbul.’

Ignoring the obvious problems with the direct translation from Turkish in the above, it is clearly all a bit contentious. The question that begs to be asked from ...

Şelçuk

A travel blog entry by danielaube

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... une basilique qui est maintenant en ruine, mais toujours impressionnante. C`est drole, car a Santiago de Compostella, il y a le tombeau d`un autre des 12 apotres.

3. L`eglise de la vierge. Une eglise en ruine repute construire sur le terrain de la derniere demeure de Marie. En bref, la Turquie est plongee dans l`histoire chretienne.

4. La cite antique d`Ephesus. Je ne suis jamais (encore) ete en Grece, mais je crois que ...

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