Saturday we left Pamukkale, where we had spent two nights in a parking area at the bottom of the terraces, and drove back to the vicinity of Selcuk and nearby Ephesus.
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Detouring for a drive-by of the less-developed Laodikeia;
here, its pretty ruined theatre
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And some other structures
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We thought we'd drive up to the Meryemana,
the conjectured house of the Virgin Mary,
where she spent her last years, mainly to see
if overnight parking was possible; it wasn't,
so we drove back down the mountain a ways
and found a nice enough lay-by
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Ephesus used to be a harbor city, until silting up, and
I wanted to get a view of the Aegean nearby; so I started
walking up the road, then turned off onto a forest service-
type road, then off onto a footpath leading to the top of
the ridge, wherefrom, I reasoned, I might be able to see
Ephesus and the sea; atop this ridge (Bulbul Dagi, Mt.
Coressos) run the ruins of a wall and towers, which I later
learned were Hellenistic
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There's the sea, and you can also see the silted-up plain
that was once Ephesus' harbor (as I write, we're on the
beach there, at Pamucak)
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So I hiked up to the wall and one of the towers
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For a nice view of Selcuk
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Its citadel, the Isa Bey Mosque, St. John's, and Garden
Camping
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And Ephesus; its Odeon
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Other structures
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And theatre
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