Fifth Stop: Ephesus, Turkey

Kusadasi (the port where we were) was probably my favorite stop! Had the best tour guide that we had our whole trip and everything we saw was great! Besides the sweltering heat of course! :) Our first stop was in the mountains at the place that's been declared as Virgin Mary's house where she lived in her later years. Then we went to the Ancient city of Ephesus and walked through all the ruins. It was so neat to be there and imagine what it must have been like a couple thousand years ago! Only a fourth of it is excavated, so there's much more. After walking through the ruins and stopping to look at different things, we went to a Turkish carpet demonstration. I think they must have rolled out at least fifty carpets for us! I wasn't too jealous of them having to roll them all up again! After that we headed back to the ship again.


The city's gate entrance at the top of the hill. It's narrow so that when people came with all their products, they would have to pay them to help, because their wagons and such wouldn't fit through! Good business mind!



The Library of Ephesus



The entry into Ephesus. The sea and port used to be close by, but over the years it's receeded and is a lot farther back and now it's all land.


This is the arena where Paul preached before a mob started and seized him. He was talking about the one true God and all the merchants of idols where angry because he was taking business away from their stores.