Türkiye- Southern Coast-Ephesius, Izmir

Jan 23

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Went to Ephesius today to see the lost city. It was so vast! Said to have a population of 250,000.

Look at the marble streets!

Top two are toilets. They were public. Bottom left is a "sign" They used these to tell you what type of shop it was. Those are bananas, so it was a fruit shop...

Bottom is ceramic sewage pipes. Right next to that is a well. Above that a basin for making bread(think mortor and pestle) Top left a Madame- yea what you're thinking. Brothel...

This city was big enough to have 2 amphitheaters. It took us 2.5 hours to tour- it's huge!

I found a wonderful private tour guide! His name is Dervis and I would be happy to share his info for anyone that's interested in seeing this area!

I then headed over to Mary's final home(Virgin Mary final resting place and wishing wall-bottom right)

Then over to a pottery shop that creates all one of a kind pieces- some even glow in the dark! Plus jewelry- yes I bought items for Christmas presents!!!

Then off to St John's. Look closely, the emblems at the top of the columns are all different...

The fort behind St John's cathedral. Middle is a mock up of what the city looked like.

Monastery. That's it for the day. Off to Izmir tomorrow. But I truly enjoyed my day. I learned so much! Hopefully you did too.

In Izmir...hopefully I can find the AfroTurks!

I used to go to a Martini Bar in Milwaukee called 88 keys. :)

I went to ruins right in the middle of the city the next day. This is the ancient city of Smyrna. I also went to another part of the marina. The city and bay are in a horseshoe shape.

The mosaic tile that was popular, lower right. Then remnants of the building at ground level.

This is a basement. You can see how the waste water flowed downhill and then out of the building. If you look closely, you can see Smyrna stamped above the water that's running out of the wall.