{"id":2041,"date":"2016-04-17T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2016-04-17T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:18:05","slug":"epheses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Epheses"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Thursday, \u00a0we flew south to see the ancient Roman ruins of Ephesus.\u00a0 These ruins were discovered in 1865 by the Brits building a railroad.\u00a0 \u00a0Some say that it is even a greater discovery than Pompeii.\u00a0 \u00a0At its height, 250,000 people lived here in this once coastal town (the ocean is now over 4 km away). The\u00a0 outdoor theater held almost 25,000 citizens for concerts, plays & other cultural events. \u00a0In recent years, Elton John, Sting, The Three Tenors and others have performed here.\u00a0 The archeologists are still in the early stages of discovery at Ephesus. \u00a0It will continue for years as funds are available.<\/div>\n
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We then went to the home where the Virgin Mary lived out here later years after Jesus was crucified.\u00a0\u00a0 The home is now a small chapel and a shrine for the Muslims. \u00a0They recognize Jesus as a prophet and therefore the home of his mother is a shrine.\u00a0 It was a very moving experience\u00a0for us to go into the chapel and say a prayer.\u00a0 \u00a0 As you exit the chapel, there is also\u00a0a wall for Muslims to place their wishes and prayers (written on small cloths)\u00a0. The spring water from the fountain\u00a0 outside the chapel is also supposed to have healing powers. \u00a0It was quite a serene and spiritual place.<\/div>\n
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The tour then took us to the typical carpet & leather shops. \u00a0We only agreed to go because we had so much time before our plane back to Istanbul. This is so often the problem with tours. They try to make a day out of 1\/2 day of material. This was a private tour and, if it was local, we would have returned to our hotel. Unfortunately, they scheduled the plane 6 hours after we were “done”. It was particularly annoying as we had been picked up at 5:00 AM for the 7:00 AM flight.<\/div>\n
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In summary, it was interesting but the timing of it all really degraded the total experience.<\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The ruins of Ephesus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
\"Main<\/a>
Main street in Ephesus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Men's<\/a>
Men’s marble toilets (slaves arrived early to warm them up)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Library\"<\/a>
The Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brothel<\/a>
Brothel across from the library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Imagine<\/a>
Imagine Elton John below!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Theatre\"<\/a>
The Theater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Virgin<\/a>
Virgin Mary Shrine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Muslim<\/a>
Muslim prayers & wishes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Nearby<\/a>
Nearby seaport (we wandered around killing time!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, \u00a0we flew south to see the ancient Roman ruins of Ephesus.\u00a0 These ruins were discovered in 1865 by the Brits building a railroad.\u00a0 \u00a0Some say that it is even a greater discovery than Pompeii.\u00a0 \u00a0At its height, 250,000 people lived here in this once coastal town (the ocean is now over 4 km … Continue reading Epheses<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Si9J-epheses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}