Full Day Private Ephesus tour including Lunch

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Ege Ports, Camikebir, Liman Cd. No:10, 09400 Kuşadası/Aydın, Turkey

Your tour guide will be ready at your hotel lobby in Kusadasi or at Kusadasi Cruise terminal Ege Ports at pre-arranged time. Our professional licenced tour guide will meet you at Kusadasi port with Viator & Kusadasi Private Tours Sign at Pre-arranged time. Guests who stays in a hotel in Kusadasi will be picked up from their hotels.

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Kusadasi Gazi Begendi Park, Turgut Ozal Blv., Kusadasi Turkey

Drive to Ephesus through Gazibegendi Park to have the best view of Kusadasi Port and center

Stop At: Meryemana (The Virgin Mary's House), Selcuk 35100 Turkey

Drive to the House of the Virgin Mary approximately 25 minutes from Kusadasi. The House of Virgin Mary is one of the pilgrimage center of Christians where Virgin Mary passed her recently time and died. Pope Paul VI visited the shrine in 1967, and ‘unofficially’ confirmed its authenticity. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI has visited this shrine After House of Virgin Mary.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Ancient City of Ephesus, Selcuk 35920 Turkey

We drive to Ephesus, famous in antiquity for its Temple of Artemis during the years of the Roman Empire, the Greek port of Ephesus became the greatest city in Asia Minor. You will start your Ephesus excursion at the upper Magnesia Gate, and work your way down through the city, ending near the ancient Harbor.

Along the way you will see the Forum, the Odeon, the Library of Celsus, the Thermal Baths of Scolastika and the Great Theater, built in the Greek era and reconstructed in the Roman period. It has played host to programs as varied as Paul and his sermons to the Ephesians, to concerts by Sting, in part due to its remarkable acoustics.

You will walk along the Arcadian Way, where once Mark Antony and Cleopatra rode in procession. You will hear stories of Alexander the Great, the Virgin Mary, and many other famous visitors who walked the same marble streets that you are walking.


Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Ephesus Terrace Houses, Selcuk 35148 Turkey

Terrace Houses in Ephesus can beadded into tour program if you want to visit

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: The Basilica of Saint John, Isa Bey Mahallesi, 2013. Sk. No:1, Selcuk 35920 Turkey

After Lunch, we will visit The Basilica of St. John it is believed that the evangelist St. John had spent his last years in the region around Ephesus and buried in the southern slope of Ayosolug Hill.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: The Temple of Artemis, Selcuk Turkey

Then Continue to visit Temple of Artemis which is one of the seven wonders of Ancient time. Returning back to your hotel / Cruise terminal in Kusadasi and the end of our tour.

Duration: 20 minutes