Turkey Pictures Part 4

This is the coliseum which seats 25,000 in Ephesus so they figure the town had 250,000 citizens.  The acoustics were great.  The guide said there had been some big names who had given concerts there...Elton john, Dianna Ross, others....

Me at breakfast in the hotel near Izmir and Ephesus...another very nice place.  We had very good luck with the places we stayed.

This is Pamukkale, a few hours drive from Izmir.   Its located  at the top of a mountain even tho in this picture it looks like a beach.  They are hot springs with a very high calcium level so as they bubble out, they lay down these calcium cliffs and pools.  It takes a day to get there and back...I would have rather stayed in Istanbul an extra day.  Its interesting but a little anticlimactic.



This is the most interesting part of Pamukkale in my opinion.  There had been a 5 star hotel built on the top of the mountin, overlooking the calcium pools and cliffs but in the 1999 it was torn down when the site was designated as an historical site.  There are also ruins of a Roman town nearby there.  These are the palm trees that the hotel left behind.  I can just imagine the legal wrangling that must have gone on.

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A little street in Selcuck, near Izmir, in front of our hotel.

We took a bus south from Selcuck to this little seaport town of Marmaris to catch the ferry to Rhodes the next morning.  This is a very sweet little town...lots of fabulous sailboats !!!!  We could have spent an extra day there too !!!