Because the weather remained much too windy for our gulet to motor to the port of Marmaris as scheduled, we disembarked further south instead and spent a total of seven hours (instead of five) in our minibus enroute to Kusadasi and our scheduled visit to Ephesus. The thought of making our visit immediately upon reaching Ephesus (rather than the morning after our arrival ) seemed more and more daunting, even as we drove through some pretty spectacular scenery approaching our destination.
Elvan, as usual, however, knew exactly what she was doing: our mid- to late-afternoon two hour tour avoided the cruise crowds (back aboard by five) and, due to an overcast sky, was cooler and more pleasant weather-wise to boot.
To say the site is wonderfully spectacular is a vast understatement. Imagine: we stood in the very same amphitheater in which Paul preached to the Ephesians centuries ago. We wandered among temple columns and over marble slab streets to visit remnants of Roman era baths and brothels and libraries and agora shops and hillside tenements. We saw age-old frescos and mosaics, statues and pediments.
Even though Lee's camera battery died, and Heidi's iPhone gave up the ghost before we left to go on to our hotel, we still managed to capture something of the wonder of this spectacular UNESCO World HEritage Site. Enjoy the results!
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