ITINERARY

• Your private guide will meet you at Kusadasi port or hotel with a sign written “Your Name“ on it, anytime you want. You may visit any or all of the places listed below: You decide together with your guide depends upon your interests and times
• After greeting, we will have 20 mins drive to Ephesus area. We will start visiting one of the main highlights in Turkey, Ephesus, one of the 12 cities of Ionian League (an ancient Greek district on the western coast of Asia Minor) is located near Izmir. As a port city it was a major departure point for trade routes into Asia Minor. Walk through history along marble streets lined with wonderful public buildings, among them the Baths of Scholastica, the Library of Celsus; it was built in the beginning of the 2nd century A.D. by Gaius Julius Aquila to be a memorial to his father Gaius Julius Celsus Polemanus, the proconsul of Province of Asia. , the Temple of Hadrian and The Grand Theater are two of the most impressive buildings in Ephesus. Grand theatre was built in 3rd century B.C and it was later expanded to 24.000 spectators by the Romans in the 1st century A.D.
• If you wish You may include The recently opened Terrace Houses where the wealthiest Romans lived are an excellent example of sensitive excavation and presentation. The mosaics and frescos are spectacular
• If you wish, You may visit The House of Virgin Mary, Tradition has it that Virgin Mary was brought here by St John after the Crucifixion and lived her final years near the city of Ephesus on an isolated mountaintop. A lovely chapel is constructed on the site tended by Franciscans and open to visitors. It has been designated a pilgrimage site by the Pope.
• If you wish, you may visit Saint John Church where Apostle John spent his final years and he was buried.
• If you wish, you may visit Ephesus Museum
• If you wish, you may visit Isa bey Mosque,
• If you wish, you may drive up to the pretty old Turkish-Orthodox village Sirince, located on the top of a mountain, where anyone will enjoy the impressive wine yards’ and peach trees’. The village has synthesis of Turk-Greek culture, where we visit mosque and Orthodox church. All the narrow streets of the village belong to the women, selling handcrafts of all kinds, olive oil. Another attraction of Sirince is its wine: try its taste in small cafés.
• If you wish, You may visit to temple of Artemis to see the remains of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• If you wish, you may stop at Grotto of the Seven Sleepers
• Drive back to Kusadasi through Gazibegendi Park to have the best view of Kusadasi town and port
• Arrival to Kusadasi. You will be dropped of either to your hotel or to Kusadasi center where is 100 meters to port or directly to the port