Sunday, November 14, 2010

Euromos, Turkey

Our search for a campground in Bodrum proved futile, so we spent a second night at the beautiful little turn-out perched above the Aegean, east of Bodrum.  (Though we didn't get a good photo, the highway's retaining walls were decorated with inset amphoras; nice touch). Next morning, hoping to avoid Milas and Mugli, and lots of road construction, we did another "backroads of Turkey" expedition, crossing the fertile Menderes valley (from which we get "meandering"), passing by Lake Bafa--once an arm of the Aegean, now a huge brackish lake--en route to Didyma. This took us past Euromos, a Greek-later-Roman town dating from the 6th century BCE, the town and most of its buildings now well gone, but sporting one of the half dozen best-preserved temples in Asia Minor, its Temple of Zeus.

Temple of Zeus, Euromos; 200m off the road















Another view















Detail















In the necroplis--middle of a plowed field, mostly--a tomb
that reminded us of dolmens, aeons earlier, in northwestern
Europe

















Later I wandered up the hill, through the olive groves--the
mountains here are covered with olive trees, more than I
have seen before--in search of Euromos' badly ruined
theatre; and eventually found it


















The aisle staircase still in pretty good shape















All that's left of the stage building
  

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