EPHESUS AND PAMUKKALE

FIRST DAY

6:00-6:15: pick up from your hotel

8:30: breakfast on the way of Ephesus

11:00: starting to travel in the antic city of Ephesus for about three hours. It is the second largest antic city in the Europe. The first of them is the Pompeii antic city in Italy. Although only %30 of the city has been excavated it is the biggest and most well-protected antic city of turkey. And also it was a harbor city at those times. It was Roman’s capital city of the Asian side.

It is also important for the Christianity as Saint John and Saint Mary spent their last three years in Ephesus. And there is the Mary house which was constructed by Papa and visited by him several times.

You will also see the third biggest library of the antic times and the biggest amphitheatre of Turkey and Asia which is about 25 thousands of people capacity. In the antic times this theatre was used by the Saint Paul and Saint John who spoke to thousands of people from here. And modern singers like Pavarotti and Sting held their concerts here. At this point the dimensions of the amphitheatre of those times are important because if you multiply the capacity of a theatre with 7 you will find the population of that city.

And one of the most important things that you will realize there is the marble statues. Everywhere you will see marble and at those times marble meant to be wealthy and rich.

You will feel the antic beauty while you are walking through the marble corridors of the Ephesus. If you are interested in history archeology mythology culture and art history you shouldn’t miss that chance.

14:30: free time to have your lunch

15:00: setting off for the hotel

18:18:30: you will be in the hotel. The hotel has indoor and outdoor swimming pool. In the hotel open buffet dinner and breakfast is provided for you. And in the evening time there is a belly dancer show…

THE NEXT DAY

7:30: breakfast time

8:00: set off for Pamukkale which is very close to the hotel

8:30: starting the Pamukkale tour. There will be 4 choices for you to do and you will have a join together point where you will meet with the others after the free time.

1.     You can walk on the white terrace pools of Pamukkale. But nowadays you are not allowed to swim there.

2.     You will see one of the best preserved amphitheatres the capacity of which is about 15 thousands of people. Actually this place is another antic city of the roman times-Hierapolis antic city-. And the amphitheatre in here is very well-preserved.

3.     There is a modern archeology museum. You can visit that museum if you want.

4.     Cleopatra’s pool which is a natural thermal water pool is another place well-worth to see and swim. It has a temperature of about 35-39 degree. And it is fully natural not man-made.

You will have about three and half hours free time. So you will have plenty of time to see all these places we mentioned above. After that free time we will set off to return back to your hotel and about 19:30-20:00 you will be back in your hotel.