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We asked our hotel owner to arrange a car and driver so we could visit Priene, Miletus and Didyma. Our driver, Kerzan,\u00a0 speaks little English and Richard wears out his phrasebook trying to communicate – very entertaining!<\/p>\n

The sites are split into 3 posts to avoid one photo heavy post.<\/p>\n

First stop is Priene. According to my DK Eyewitness Travel guidebook, Priene had strong Greek ties and was not viewed favorably by the Romans. Consequently, it is “one of the most intact hellenistic settlements to be seen”.<\/p>\n

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Steep uphill walk to Priene<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mount Mykale<\/p><\/div>\n

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Distant View of the Aegean Sea<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the guidebook, the Temple of Athena was built in the 4th century AD by Alexander the Great.<\/p>\n

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

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The theatre was built in the 3rd century BC and could accommodate 5000 people.<\/p>\n

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

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City Gate<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We asked our hotel owner to arrange a car and driver so we could visit Priene, Miletus and Didyma. Our driver, Kerzan,\u00a0 speaks little English and Richard wears out his phrasebook trying to communicate – very entertaining! The sites are split into 3 posts to avoid one photo heavy post. First stop is Priene. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}