Day 10 October 20 Kusadasai Turkey: Photos 63 to 78

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

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