it has been a crazy past few days and just yesterday i realized that i am leaving this city in 2 days!
so the day after i last posted about 11 of us travelled independently to Ephesus, which is a site of Roman ruins in southwestern Turkey. We arranged to have a bus pick us up at out hotel at 10pm the night before and endured a FREEZING 8 hour drive! we got there at about 6am when we woke up to find that we were sitting at a Turkish rest stop on the side of the highway. Apparently our driver was driving so fast that we arrived about 3 hours earlier than expected and our English speaking tour guide wasnt even awake yet! so we sat around there awkwardly until he arrived. then we drive to the site of the ruins, which were awesome. It was so weird to think that we were seeing things that had been built thousands of years ago. the ruins were truly awesome, and the sun coming up and the surrounding mountains made the perfect backdrop. I will definitely post pictures once I get home.
After we left the ruins our guide took us to a local ceramic workshop where they showed us how ceramics were made. that was very cool because ceramics are a deeply rooted art form in Turkey. After we left there we went to the House of Mary, which is the house that the Virgin Mary supposedly lived in until her death. There is no for sure proof of this but it was still very cool to see.
have to go meet the rest of the group for dinner...I will definitely post a ton of pictures when I get home and will describe all the other things we did.
Love, Laura
posted by Laura @ 7:11 AM
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