KUSADASI: FULL DAY EPHESUS EXCURSION

Your professional tour guide and a deluxe air-conditioned vehicle will meet you and your party at the Kusadasi Pier or your hotel. This excursion will include a walking tour of Ephesus, which should definitely be one of the highlights of a visit to Turkey!

You will first be transported to see The Basilica of St. John. Then, you start on the visit to the famous ancient city of Ephesus, where you will be walking on marble streets, admiring the Odeon (Concert Hall), The Celsus Library with its insulated double walls and beautiful marble statues and carvings, the “House of Ill Repute”, the Roman Baths, The Agora Marketplace, The Grand Theater, accommodating 25,000 people, where St. Paul preached, and more. You can behold one of the first public advertisements in the world, which is still visible! Thereafter, visit the Archaeological Museum of Ephesus, with displays of ancient coins, statues, and mosaics, mostly from the Early and Late Roman Periods.

There will be a stopover for Lunch, and afterwards a shopping opportunity before returning to your Cruise Ship or your hotel.

Note: If desired, especially for a predominantly Catholic Group, a visit to The House Of The Virgin Mary on Mount Bulbul (Nightingale), where she is believed to have spent her last years, can be substituted instead of the visit to The Basilica of St. John on the Full Day Ephesus Excursion only. [Visitors of other denominations generally do not have much interest in visiting The House Of The Virgin Mary which, on the other hand, is a place of pilgrimage for the Catholic Church]. We just need to be informed in advance of such a choice.