Description

Your tour guide will meet you at Kusadasi Port or the hotel that you stay in Kusadasi.

Also the guide will hold up a sign which your name on it. We are now leaving the colourful town of Kusadasi behind, you will pass throughout the verdant countryside before arriving at Ephesus. *In The Full Day Tour, our first Stop is the Virgin Marys House.

Along with 25 minute drive that visit takes approximately 45 minutes, The we drive down to the Upper gate of the Ancient City of Ephesus.* The Ephesus tour starts with your local Ephesus guide, a walking tour will take you throughout one of the most magnificent excavations in the world. See the Odeon,The Fountain of Trajan, the five terraces of apartment houses, the stream baths of Scholastika, the temple of Hadrian and impressive library of Ephesus. The library is adorned with columns and statues.

The Grand Theater, where Saint Paul preached, is the largest theater is antiquity with a capacity of 24,000 seats. You will return to the bus through the Arcadian Way, where Mark Anthony and Cleopatra once rode in procession.The next visit is to the museum of Ephesus.This is one of the most important museums in Turkey. It mainly exhibits the pieces found in and around Ephesus. Since the 2nd World War all small findings are on display in the Ephesus Museum.

The visit of Ephesus Open Air Museum takes nearly 2 hours. The next stop on your tour is the Temple of Artemis (Diana),built in honour of the Greek Goddess of hunting, wild nature and fertility, deemed as one of the Seven wonders of the ancient world. The temple of Artemis used to be the largest marble temple in the ancient Greek world since it was four times as the big as the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The temple served as both a marketplace and religious institution.

Offerings by thousands of pilgrims each year enabled the temple to grow so wealthy that it became the world`s first bank. Today, little remains of the magnificent structure. Your guide will describe its importance, its wealth and tension that existed between the Romans and Christians that settled in the area over the centuries.*Afterwards, We drive back to Kusadasi Harbour.