{"id":450,"date":"2016-06-28T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2016-06-25T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:41:41","slug":"ephesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Ephesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the advice of our hotel owner, we waited to depart for Ephesus until 3pm. He said that the site is very crowded earlier in the day with cruise ship excursions – good tip since there were still lots of people around when we visited. We had the taxi drop us at the upper gate so we had a downhill walk through the site. We did not purchase the audio tour since I had a guidebook, but it would have been worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Per DK Eyewitness Travel Guidebook: originally a Greek city founded in 1000 BC, the city ruins standing on the site was founded by Alexander the Great in 4 BC and most surviving structures date from this Roman period.<\/p>\n

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The Odeon (meeting hall) built AD 150.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Odeon<\/p><\/div>\n

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We were fascinated by the reconstruction of the arches throughout the site.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Temple of Hadrian<\/p><\/div>\n

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Library of Celsus<\/p><\/div>\n

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Street Paved with Marble Block<\/p><\/div>\n

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Theatre<\/p><\/div>\n

After we exited site, we caught a dolmus back to Selcuk. I’ll probably write more about dolmus’ in a future post, but these were everywhere and cheap transportation.<\/p>\n

We had two big items on our must see list for this trip – Aya Sofia and Ephesus. Both were well worth the time, expense and effort. Astounding to imagine we walked the same places as Paul the Apostle. Very much a dream come true.<\/p>\n

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