Only 6 persons with a guide in our very comfortable Mercedes minibus made our visit today to Ephesus very pleasant. We started our tour by going to home of the Virgin Mary on what used to be known as Mt Coressos (now Bulbul Dagi). The present-day structure contains a chapel. A very beautifully landscaped park surrounds the chapel. The story of Ephesus is interesting in that when it was built the harbor was its front door. The Cayster River silted up the harbor...

After docking in Bodrum we boarded a bus for a panoramic drive around the Bodrum Peninsula. We were shown the old windmills used to grind grains atop Gumbet Hill and a magnificent vista. We visited the remnants of Myndos Gate where Alexander the Great entered the city which, at that time, was named Halicarnassus and was surrounded by a wall. We were then driven to the small fishing village of Gumusluk, north of Bodrum, where we were served a light refreshment of ...