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| Seven
Seas Navigator moored in Kusadasi harbour |
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| Ephesus
is a 20 minute drive away. You enter it down the Marble Street |
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| Passing
the Trajan Fountain |
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| Walking
down the main street |
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| Hadrian's
Temple |
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| This
is The Latrina. Ephesus had running fresh water and a sewage disposal
system |
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| On
Curetes Street. Basically a pedestrian shopping street. |
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| The
Celsus Library and the Gate of Mazeus and Mithridates |
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| A
reconstruction of the Temple of Artemis which was one of the Seven Wonders
of the World |
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This
is the Grand Theatre.
To get an idea of the
significance of this place, this is where Cleopatra spent her
honeymoon.
Ephesus was the centre of idolatry (They worshiped the Goddess Artemis) So
when the disciple Paul came and lectured in this Grand Theatre that they
should give up "false Gods" and turn to Jesus, he got the reception
you can imagine. They threw him in jail. When released he wrote letters
back to the people of Ephesus that had heard him speak. These were the
Letters of Paul to Ephesians. The disciple John lived and died in Ephesus.
And we stood on those self same marble slabs today |
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| On
the way back we were "treated" to a carpet demonstration. We did
not buy one... |
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| This
sign took my eye... |
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| Street
in Kusadasi |
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