Vera Hotel Santa Maria Kusadasi
Bayrakli Dede Mah Kusadasi, Turkish Aegean Coast, 09400, Turkey
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Day 245 - Ephesus
... in the world. Predictably we were brought to a ceramic factory/shop despite being assured that we would not be. It was moderately interesting how they made them but then we waited around for half an hour to get on our way.
Before we arrived at Ephesus we visited the ruins of the Temple of Artemis. The earliest traces of the Artemision building date to the 7th century B.C. and is considered one of the 7 wonders of the ...
The Ancient city of Ephesus and Kusadasi
... After Ephesus we went to a carpet factory where they make silk and cotton carpets by hand, which is very rare in Turkey these days. It takes the girls up to a year or more to make some of the carpets, which is why they are so expensive. We then made it to the port city of Kusudasi, very nice harbour area and bazaar. We had a good night out here too in the local bar ...
3 lunches but why?
... Ephesus. These are some really fascinating ruins that are very well preserved. I spent about an hour and a half walking around trying my best to avoid the giant tour groups. It was actually quite pleasant wandering around on my own since I didn't have to follow a tour guide and I could go and explore little random alleyways and staircases and go wherever I felt like going. I then spent about 30 minutes at the end of the walk ...
Window to the water
... a bit of face, not knowing our barely 50 percent result would end up making us 1st place) so we were given free drinks when it was actually the last thing we felt like.
The following day Irish, English and I headed off together for a tour to Pamukkale - another ancient city that has an area that looks like a ski field, with some sort of calcium build up creating the effect, and has also made pools which become filled with water from thermal springs within the ...
Day 7 Day at Sea / Day 8 Kusadasi & Ephesus
... duct out of the tour. Thanks Robert…its be great but it is time for us to take our leave of the tour and go our own way! I really did not want to sit for another hour to see hard selling Turkish Merchants doing their best to sell me a rug! We skipped out on the rug demonstration and instead went straight into the Bazaars. In the Bazaar we even saw a McDonalds restaurant on the left near the entrance.
Omar the Turkish Merchant
We had a real experience in hard ...
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