Victoria Hotel Selcuk

... with beautiful minarets. Homer was born here. Our guide was a woman named Itek. Unfortunately for her, and us, she was nervous, must have been new at this, and she could barely speak English clearly. But she managed to give us lots of good info as we drove to Ephesus. Turkey is a huge agricultural producer for Europe. We saw peaches, cotton, olive, horse, sheep, corn, greenhouses, tobacco, pistachios, and apple trees. The land is extraordinary, hilly and ...

H's Notes<br>We woke to find ourselves mooring in Kusadasi. Our tour to Ephesus had been planned for the afternoon so we took ourselves off for a walk along the seafront and out to Pigeon Island which gives Kusadasi its name. <br>The tour to Ephesus was quite stunning and the ruins were far more extensive than we had ever envisioned. According to our guide Ihsan who was born in Greece but who has lived in this area for over 30 years, only a quarter of the Ephesus complex has been ...

... 1.5 hours when I realised that I couldn't find what supposed to be so beautiful, wonderful, magnificent and mindblowing. Either I just have seen too many other ruined sites to be more approaching or I am just realistic by saying that I was simply disappointed about the helpless appearing heaps of stones beside the theatre and very few remaining facades. <br>But the nearby village of Selcuk was a good place to be anyway - just to find an excuse!<br>

... a fight. If the loser fought well according to the crowd or judges, they were allowed to live.<br>We saw the old library (only for men of course), the brothel, the baths, the political theatre, and the hospital. We learned that there was a huge earthquake at one time and that many people died (they think it happened during the night because in one area that they are still excavating they found many remains of people in the houses). As a ...

... to visit Ephesus, we just relaxed, walked around the city and had a nice fish dinner, and the price was right. Seems to me the number of tourists have gone way down so the prices is down too. I have yet to see a full hostel/hotel ever since I started my trip, and the restaurants are mostly deserted.<br><br>Ephesus was an important and prosperous city before and during the early Roman time, and it is also important in religious history: It is widely believed that St. John had taken ...

... owns the cute, hotel and carpet shop. He had taken us to Ephesus the day before, and that's when we saw his place and decided to stay there. Luckily, two groups left earlier than expected, so we took the two empty rooms. The whole place is filled with Turkish decore and handcrafts; it is a very special place! We had the best sleep since we left home because the pillows and bed were so comfortable! As a bonus, a pair of storks and their three babies ...

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... we even lucked out and had some popcorn at the pub we were at. (Did the owner KNOW it was our anniversary!!!) After our time at the pub, we made our way around the cobblestone side-streets and came upon a street market set up in a large open area. We took our time searching through their many tables full of jewellery, clothes and other knick-knacks. We both went away with some new fashions that we grabbed for $2.00 a ...

... to the site. The city has been around for two thousand years, was home to 500,000 Ephesians, and is the finest example of a classical city on the Meditteranean. The layout of the principal sights runs in a roughly straight line. You walk down a paved arcade lined with tall finely carved stone columns complete with ornate bulls head and scroll capitals still gracing the top. All the while ...