Selcuk, Ephesos



7th March. I have been in Selcuk since the 5th in the afternoon. I reached there in taxi, cuz I was caught in a real rainstorm on my way from Izmir and just had to give up.

I found a very nice hotel in Selcuk_ View from my hotel window!!!!! Just accross the street


yes, it is perhaps not the view from  my window that is best with the hotel, but if you look at the two following pictures you get another impression. I am the only guest, and the family running the place, hotel Navar are numerous and everywhere.They use the hotel lobby as their living room and have their loud domestic arguments there as well. But they are very friendly and they shut up at night. Hotel costs 17 Euro.







I had a bit of fun with these three Gipsy ladies. I raced them on my  bike, stopped, took picture, overtook them again a few times. And they also thought it was fun as you can see.







In Selcuk, there are oranges along the streets. The low hanging fruit is picked.




This is how the food can look at a Lokanta, which are the local restaurants where there have one or two main dishes ready to eat, no menu, no nonsense, but good food. That whole set + water + tea cost not more than 2.5 Euro. It is lentil soup, a chicken and bean stew, a sallad and rice and  bread. Apart from these kind of places there are the kebab and pide (kind of pizza) places. They are a bit more expensive




St John tha apostle moved to Ephesos togetherwith the Virgin Mary. Her house is also here, but I didn't visit it. His tomb is suppsed to be under this stone. The stone apparently is NOT an original as they would not have written in Turkish and English at that time.....The tomb is in the ruins of the St John Basilica

The weather was really bad the 5th and the 6th, rain and storm. In the afternoon today it cleared up.



Ephesos was the second city next to Rome in this part of the world, with approximately 250 000 inhabitants. The theater could house 25 000 spectators. It was really a nice and interesting thing to visit Ephesos







Tomorrow I will leave early towards Bodrum. It will take me two days to get there I believe, inshallah.
Then I will stay a day or two there and take the ferry to Yunnanistan  - which is Turkish for Greece.


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Postat av: Lena

den sista bilden var riktigt bra, ser väldigt maffigt ut!

2009-03-10 @ 19:48:03
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