
I had pre-arranged a tour with EKOL tours of Turkey to take us to the archaeological site of Ephesus. While chatting with people online I met up with someone who wanted to join us to help keep costs down.
We met Lianda, Joe, Alice and Alice’s husband at Cova Café and we headed off the ship as soon as the gangway opened, even before it was announced that we could leave the ship. We met our guide Yelda and our driver and headed to Ephesus. It was great being part of such a small tour group. Yelda was a licensed guide from Turkey, having studied Turkish history to get this job. She is from a city to the south of where we were, Izmir. She was very knowledgeable and personable and told us a lot about Epehsus and the area even before we got there. None of us knew much about the area or what we were going to see, so having a good guide was necessary. It took about 15 minutes to get from the port to the site. Once inside Yelda pointed out all sorts of interesting things that we would have missed had we gone on our
Full Text Entry: Day 10 October 20 Kusadasai Turkey
Epehsus A Christian marker carved in the sidewalk
NikeHer body and clothes make the famous "swish" shape
A game carved into the sidewalkWe saw quite a few of these. They were typically in front of businesses or homes where people would sit and play, similar to backgammon
HousesYelna is explaining how these houses were laid out in the hillside
Mosaic SidwalkThis was in front of the houses. It would have had a cloth awning over it to shade the people
Yenla on the toiletShe is showing us the public bath facilities. It was a building with a bath in the center and the toilets along the walls with channels for flowing water and water flowing underneath to wash everythi
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