Kokkari Beach Hotel

... homes and gardens and finally made it to Ephesus. Ephesus is an ancient city. Actually, there are five cities called Ephesus, but we visited Ephesus #3. It was founded by Amazons from the Black Sea area and was named after Queen Apasa, which means Bee. St. John wrote portions of the bible here and died here.<br> We all piled out of the bus and started through the ruins. These were buildings and columns and roads and temples, most from the 2nd century BC. It was ...

... He spoke all through the tour about the extensive history of the place with pride and passion.<br><br>The ruins are buried under layers of earth and this process whereby a thriving community gets lost over centuries by being interred is a mystery to us really. The quality of the stonework at Ephesus mirrored that we had seen in Greece and the expertise of the stone workers astonished us. Also the extent of the complex with its way down to what used to be the Aegean Sea until ...

... R100GS and invited me for dinner, beer and even to meet the entire family including the farm with dogs and cows! A night in such friendly hospitable company was a real rare experience along my worldtrip.<br><br>Continuing up north I was heading straight to the place to visit Efes or Ephesus. One of those beautiful, wonderful, magnificent and mindblowing must-see sights, everybody to set foot on Turkish territory must have seen. It took not more ...

... to resemble the original city.<br>Returning from our tour, we were taken into an endorsed carpet store where we were given a presentation on the methods used to extract silk from silk worms and then watched as they unrolled many incredible handmade carpets in front of us. <br>They then proceeded to serve drinks (including red wine) by carrying them over the carpets and handing them to us. We were astonished that they didn't care if people ...

... be closed its siesta time in Greece if you dont know between the hours of 2 and 5 you can do absolutly nothing but get coffee or drinks in cafes or food in restaurants everything else is closed and some places stay closed for the rest of the day or open back up at 5 like the bank and post office dont bother to open again lol. So Ian asked if they knew where we could get any rooms from and the man said that his dad had a place but it was full but rang ...

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... I called my travel agent here, and she found him waiting at the wrong terminal. He finally got to me and gave me a car with a completely empty gas tank. I was not happy. I drove to Selcuk from Izmir in a wild thunder/hail/rainstorm in a lousy car with terrible traction. It was a very unpleasant drive, and my nerves were on end when I arrived. Fortunately, this is a lovely ...

... The homes are quite nice, two stories most of them, some have very nicely landscaped yards. I guess who ever owns the homes don't come until summer time. Today was sunny and about 22, 23 degrees, no wind. We wonder what they are waiting for. We meet a fellow, older, Canadian at the bus stop. He was out looking for birds, but didn't find any. Len hitches a ride and we all get in and then out at the corner. Len offers the chap a hand and he says 'I can ...

... go and get water with her and Fadime at 5:15. When I was in Konya last time, I used to go and get water with the kids every day. There is a central water pump, and the kids go with all kinds of large containers and fill them up with water so they have a supply of water for the day. When 5:15 came along, Haava asked if we should go and get the water. As soon as we got outside, she told us that she had a boyfriend, and we were going to meet him at the water pump. No wonder she had set a ...

... around 11am and still getting hotter. Also, I quickly noticed that my 15 minute walk was all uphill, which made it a 30min. walk with the pack and heat. It was a slow trudge uphill, one that I probably would've taken a taxi for had I had local currency on me, but there was no ATM at the port, so my legs would have to do. It wasn't long before I realized that the estimate on the bus stations distance was quite a bit short of reality, and I was struggling. Just then ...