Shore Excursions

Tour Name: Full Day Tour to Ephesus
Duration: 8 hours

The best preserved and restored ancient city in Turkey! Visit Ephesus which is known to be Commercial, the Religious and Social Center of Antiquity, and one of the highlights of any visit in Turkey. With themythological stories and spectacular ruins you will feel the life in ancient Ephesus.
You will visit the Fountains of Trojan, Polio, The Temples of Hadrian and Domition, Private House, the Library of Celsius, Various and Scholastic Baths,Bouloterion and the Great Theatre with capacity of 24.000 spectators.

After enjoying the Turkish cuisine at lunch, you will visit the House of Virgin Mary, where she spent last days of her life. Visit the Archaeological Museumof Ephesus before returning to Kusadasi where you tour concludes.

Tour Name: Private Full Day Tour to Aphrodisias
Duration: 8 hours

Drive for approximately two and a half hours before reaching today's destination of Aphrodisias.
Here you will visit the world famous archaeological site, with plenty of Roman and Hellenic ruins to keep you enthralled. See the ruined sites of the city

such as the Odeon, Grand Theatre, School of Sculpture and of course, the Temple of Aphrodisias.
Your lunch today is included, before your return to Kusadasi in the afternoon.

Tour Name: Private Full Day Tour to Pergamum and Asklepion
Duration: 8 hours

Pergamum is one of the finest archaeological sites in Turkey. The city was a great center of culture and the capital of East Roman Empire. On the Acropolis there are numerous remains including the celebrated Library, the steepest theatre of Anatolia, the Temples of Trojan and Dionysos, the placeof the monumental Altar of Zeus famous with the relief of God and devils, the Sanctuary of Demeter, the Gymnasium situated on terraces and the lower Agora.


After a delicious lunch with Turkish specialties, you will visit the Archaeological Museum of Bergama.
Proceed to the Medical Center of the ancient world, Asklepion where the first psychological treatment had been used and which was dedicated to the God of Health, Asklepios.

Tour Name: Private Full Day Tour to Pamukkale and Hierapolis
Duration: 9 hours

Today is a combination of history and nature. In the morning you will leave Izmir behind and drive to Pamukkale. This amazing place is a beautiful and spectacular natural site, unique in the world with its fairylike, dazzling white, petrified lime cascades. There you will see the thermal spring water laden with calcareous salt, plunging down the mountain side which has created this natural formation of stalactites,cataracts and basins. The thermal water has been used since the Roman period for its therapeutic powers. Next you will visit the Roman city of Hierapolis, which is not located not on earth or rock, but on solid limestone layers formed by limestone water thatflowed for centuries over this raised level plateau. The name means "sacred city", and according to Stephanus of Byzantium the city was given this namebecause of the large number of temples it contained.

While here you will visit the Apollo Temple competing with Delphi, Monumental Nympheum (a 4th century Basicala) and the Theatre. After visiting the best preserved Necropolis, return to Izmir.

Tour Name: Private Half Day Jewish Heritage - Bodzag Mountain Range, Sardis
Duration: 4 hours

Enjoy the marvelous scenery of the Bodzag Mountain Range on your one hour and twenty minute drive to Sardis.
Here you will see the Kings Road which stretched from Sardis to Persepolis. You will also see the restored ruins of the ancient gymnasium, Roman bath, Temple
of Artemis, and one of the oldest synagogues in Asia Minor.
You will have lunch in Sardis before returning to through the same mountain range