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Sea: Flat as a pancake
Weather: Hot – High 30s

Another full on day of excursions today and more ancient history to absorb. We were visiting Miletus, Didyma and Ephesus for another day of immersing ourselves in ancient history.
 
Another early start and we were a little surprised to see the buffet was busier than yesterday – guess a lot of people have booked excursions. We were still able to find a table, grab a bite to eat before heading down to Deck 4 to disembark and find our tour guide.  We were on bus 7 along with the couple from Hull and their daughter and another couple from yesterday.  Our Guide (he didn’t tell us his name) was on a mission to get to the other places ahead of the other three coaches doing this tour!
 
Didyma and Miletus were to the south of the port so we were visiting these first before heading back into Ku\u015fadas\u0131 for lunch then onto the highlight of today, Ephesus.
 
Didyma was around an hours drive away; an ancient Greek sanctuary that used to be on the coast of lonia. Apollo was the main deity of the sanctuary of Didyma, also called Didymaion. It was home to both of the temples dedicated to the twins Apollo and Artemis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From here it was the 30 mins drive to Didyma to see the Temple of Apollo … twin of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.  This was a more intact Temple at Didyma (at Ephesus, just the foundations remained).<\/p>\n\n\n

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It was an impressive site to explore. The footprint of the temple was huge and broken columns rose up from the floor. The broken parts were left lieing on the ground. The columns tops had been ornately carved and you could see how the columns were built by stacking stone “disks” on top of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The guide walked us through the site, pointing out interesting things to see and a little more about the history of the place. After this, we had about 30 minutes or so to wander around by ourselves. It wasn’t even 9.30am and the temperature was quickly rising. <\/p>\n\n\n

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