Ladee's Travels: Kuşadası (Turkey)

5/20/2012

We headed east away from the coast through an area that used to be an inlet. The tour guide said that Ephesus was a coastal city. The sea has been filled in long ago by silt. But that is not the only story...

This map will help you to see where we are. We are following the yellow arrows.

One story for Ephesus is that it was a coastal city. You can see from the map that it is not a coastal city today. I researched this topic and found some interesting maps on a website. The writers had the same questions and did a very nice job presenting an answer. Thank you to AOI.COM The website is here...click here. I've borrowed a few of the map illustrations.

This map shows the layout of the town today. Ephesus is just left of the red balloon at Selcuk.

The blue area shows the water if the sea level was 4 meters higher. This puts Ephesus on the coast.

Another story is that a river flowed through the valley, and that silt filled the river and removed the coastal access. What do you think?

On with the tour!

As we drove through the valley we saw ranches.

There were a lot of fruit trees and fields planted with vegetables.

The Baggio Rossini Leather store is along the main road. This is the description of their business from the website. They also have a Facebook page! We drove past and didn't stop in the store.

We are a leather manufacturer based in Izmir, Istanbul Turkey and we specialize in tailor-made and mass manufacturing of leather apparel like coats, overcoats and jackets. We have been exporting to all corners of the world since 1998 and we have retail presence in Ukraine, Russia and Egypt in addition to several domestic retail locations in Turkey We are looking for retail and wholesale opportunities in Europe. We would like to work with well-known retailers either by exporting our goods, opening a corner store or opening a brand new leather boutique in partnership with the domestic retailer. Our vision is to sell leather apparel at reasonable prices in mass quantities and we are looking for partners to accomplish this.

This is a busy intersection. The wild flowers were in bloom.

Views of the surrounding mountains. We had a very pretty sky today, with fluffy white clouds and peeks of blue.

Here is a gas station. I like to check out how this common facility is organized, and it is very similar to what we have in the US. Can I now read Turkish? The sign says "Oto Gaz". Auto Gas!

This building is under construction. I thought it was interesting that three of the four stairs were solid, but the one of the left isn't filled in underneath.

This is quite a self sufficient building. Look closely and you will see a cell phone tower, water on the roof, and a satellite dish. Is that a set of solar panels?

Look! The lower left side of the photo shows the stadium seating of Ephesus. These stadiums were normally along the sea.

This is a closeup of the stadium.

I wonder if this is the Grotto of St. Paul. The grotto is not open to the public, and it contained early Christian frescoes and inscriptions. I'm not sure and I am guessing.