turkey

EPHESUS.

Nearing the end of our time in Turkey, Saterday,we were up early and off on a river cruise for the morning.We went through reedy channels, to visit another ancient city of Caunos. After lunch we travelled about 4hrs to Pamukkule. Lovely hotel with a swimming pool, bliss after a hot trip. A wedding was in progress down the road, so we went to be nosey, Loud music and dancing, 500 guests, paid for by the grooms parents!!

This place is famous for its White cliffs, they were specatular, we walked through the ancient city of heirapolis. In the 70s they built some modern hotels on this site, but were demolished soon after, as they were destoying the terraces. We were amongst thousands of tourists here and at Ephesus.

They now think Ephesus was in existence 5000 yrs ago, 250,000 lived here, They have escavated 10% of the site, So we mortals are only a blimp in the scale of life on this earth!!

Today we travelled most of the day, with an interesting lunch stop,and a visit to an Olive museum. The Olive trees have huge trunks, suppose very old. Miles and miles of groves. We passed by many cities, one had 4 million people.

We are now atAssos, we branched off the main highway,and followed a windy road for 20kms to a small fishing village. Our hotel is right on the sea, very quaint. We all had dinner in the hotel, dont often do this, we and the waiters were confused!! The desert was boiled pumpkin with a coating of sweet syrup, and chopped walnuts!!

Tomorrow night we are off to Canakkale and the famous site of Troy. It is here we farewell our superb bus driver Arlie. He has been such a help and a wonderful smiling face, he seemed to have enjoyed our company,we had so many laughs with him.