Posts in Tag: Turkey
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Myra – Visiting the Home of St. Nicholas
For the past two days our western Turkey Adventures Abroad tour has been stationed in the small Mediterranean town of Kas. Yesterday we enjoyed an outing by boat on the Turquoise Coast which will surely be one of the highlights of the entire trip, but it’s time to move on. Today we have several interesting […]
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The Turquoise Coast by Boat
In the previous post we arrived in the small town of Kas having stopped at Fethiye along the way to view the Lycian rock tombs. A few years ago Alison and I and some friends embarked upon a week long Blue Cruise that took us along the Turquoise Coast of Turkey to some of the […]
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Fethiye to Kas – Lycian Tombs and a Great Market
In the previous post on this Adventures Abroad trip to western Turkey we toured Bodrum Castle with its unique Underwater Archaeology Museum. I love Bodrum and never get tired of visiting it, but alas, it is time to move on and continue our exploration of Turkey’s beautiful Turquoise Coast. Today we are headed to the […]
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Bodrum Castle – The Crusader’s Last Stand
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey we arrived at Bodrum, aka the ancient city of Halicarnassus. Our guide Yasemin had given us the day off to relax in this seaside resort and Alison and I used it to visit the remnants of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the […]
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Bodrum – Relaxing on the Mediterranean Coast
Our Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey continues as we wrap up our time in the famous ancient city of Ephesus home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This morning we visited the famous Temple and Oracle of Apollo at Didyma before heading for yet another Seven […]
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Didyma & the Oracle of Apollo
Our intrepid group of Covid weary travellers has just moved on from the wondrous site of the ancient city of Ephesus as we continue exploring western Turkey with Adventures Abroad led by Yasemin Reis. Our eventual destination today is the small coastal city of Bodrum, once known as Halicarnassus, site of one of the Seven […]
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Ephesus – Visiting Turkey’s Most Impressive Ruins
Chances are if you’ve never been to Turkey you will have three major tourism sites on your agenda – Hagia Sophia, which we’ve already visited, Cappadocia which is coming up and Ephesus which we are visiting today. These are far and away the most visited places by foreign tourists and this tour of western Turkey […]
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Basilica of Saint John, Selcuk, Turkey
In this post we continue our exploration of western Turkey with Adventures Abroad in the Ephesus area by visiting sites sacred to both the Christian and Islamic religions followed by an unscheduled visit to the house of the Virgin Mary. As an added bonus we get to gaze upon another sacred site, this one dedicated […]
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The Ephesus Museum, Selcuk, Turkey
This is a long awaited day for many on this Adventures Abroad tour of Western Turkey. Our group will visit a number of sites around the ancient city of Ephesus, arguably the most important place to visit in the entire country after Istanbul. Prior to Covid over 2 million people visited the area which averaged […]