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On February - 13 - 2012

It’s friendly, beautiful, culturally rich and good value for money. It’s modern enough to be comfortable yet traditional enough to be interesting.

Turkey is one of the world’s top 10 travel destinations, welcoming more than 23 million visitors every year.

Culture & Art: Turkey’s history of human habitation goes back 25,000 years. Some of the earliest-known human communities are here. Hittites, Phrygians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, Seljuks, Ephesus,Mongols, Ottomans and others have all left their works of art and culture in what is now the Turkish homeland. Modern Turkey has all this—and more mobile phones than you’ve ever seen in one place before.

Special-Interest Activities: With nearly 8400 km (5200 mi) of coastline, water sports and yachting are big favorites. Hiking, white-water rafting, mountain-climbing and bicycling are all important, and growing, as is skiing. My favorite of all is hot-air ballooning.

Cuisine: Turkish food is now world-famous, and rightly so. The abundance of its fields, farms, orchards, flocks and fishing boats is exceptional, and Turkish chefs take full advantage of this bounty. Everyone comments on how good the food is. Then there’s Turkish tea….

Private Ephesus Tour; Who would not want to live in Roman times? By visiting Ephesus, you will live in the past, the Hellenistic and Roman … The city of Ephesus is located in western Turkey not far from the Aegean Sea, 80 km from Izmir and 18 km of beach resorts Kusadasi.

The holy city of Artemis, Ephesus was one of the most important cities of antiquity. It is a vast archaeological site displaying beautiful remains of several civilizations. The site of Ephesus are three hills in the south Mount Coressos reaching 360 m northeast of the fortress Ayasoluk, where the first arrivals settled Greek and between the two, Mount Pion, which form the urban center Hellenistic – Roman.

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