There are way too many items to post at one time, but I'll give you a taste of what we did and then later delve into each in future posts.
We arrived in Bodrum, in southwest Turkey, on Saturday about noon and spent the day there wandering the streets and seeing all the docked boats. Bodrum is located on the southwest coast of Turkey along the Aegean Sea.
On Sunday we visited the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in St. Peter's Castle, as it was as windy as it normally is in Haxtun. We planned to go to Kos, Greece, a nearby island, so we took a ferry ride there on Monday morning.
The tree where Hippocrates taught his Greek medical students
The view of the Greek harbor from our hotel room
We got back to Bodrum Tuesday evening and booked a trip to Efesus on Wednesday. We left Bodrum at 6:50 AM and bused to Efesus. First we went to the home of the Virgin Mary. Whew, what an experience. This is where she and St. John went after Jesus' death, and where she was believed to have died.
After Mary's house, we went into the city of Efesus. Romans walked the same streets we walked, and St. Paul preached in the Odem, or great theater, where it eventually held 25,000 people.
After Efesus we went on to Pamukkale where we spent the night. This is where there are white calcium rock formations with hot pools. Right next to the pools is another ancient city, Hieropolis. Here, St. Phillip was martyred and buried.
We bused back to Bodrum by about 8:00 PM Thursday night and had a fantastic sunset from our hotel.
On Friday we just rested!! We sat by the pool, which opened while we were gone, and then again went down to the shopping/restaurant district for our last evening's dinner.
We had a beer by the water before dinner and watched another beautiful sunset. We flew out in the morning and were back to the lojman by 12:30 Saturday.
That's the week in a nut shell. I'll start now on individual city trip posts which will follow in the coming days.
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