Cruise Day 7: Ephesus Turkey Ruins & Virgin Mary House | Royal Caribbean Mediterranean Adventure
Kuşadası PortGreece CountryItaly CountryTürkiye CountryRoyal Caribbean Cruise LineMykonos PortNaples PortSantorini Port
It's Day 7 of our cruise. This leg was from Santorini to Kusadasi Turkey! We left the caldera behind and sailed into Turkey for one of the best port days of the cruise. Kusadasi is the gateway to Ephesus, and we did it right with a professional guided tour. There is so much history here, unless you hire someone who knows what you are looking at, you will miss so many things. We started at the House of Virgin Mary, the small stone chapel six miles up the mountain from the former bustling city of Ephesus where tradition says Mary spent her final years. Quiet, shaded, and moving; pilgrims including us still fill bottles from the spring said to have healing water. Then Ephesus. The Library of Celsus with its four statues of wisdom, knowledge, intelligence, and virtue. Marble Street worn smooth by chariot wheels. The Terrace Houses with mosaics and frescoes vivid after two thousand years. The Great Theatre seating twenty-five thousand. The Agora, Curetes Street, Temple of Hadrian, Fountain of Trajan, and the Prytaneion. The scale hits you standing in it. Back in Kusadasi, a silk rug factory tour: silkworms to cocoons to thread, natural dyes from pomegranate and indigo, hand-tied knots that take months or years. Ephesus in the morning, living craft in the afternoon... the perfect port day. Links to all the videos in this European Cruise Series: 48 Hours Until Our Mediterranean Dream Cruise Begins!: https://youtu.be/tC-5q_gvL7M Cruise Day 1: Arriving In Rome Italy!: https://youtu.be/hT1oZz2GbzA Cruise Day 2: Embarkation & Ship Tour!: https://youtu.be/6fbir2xgopQ Cruise Day 3: Naples Italy! https://youtu.be/3t6z6_jAGWk Cruise Day 4: Taormina, Sicily: https://youtu.be/o7yf-0IIeMM Cruise Day 5: Sailing Day: https://youtu.be/9ncAsSPBtjY?si=I19zevkCyUQT0UrJ Cruise Day 6: Santorini Greece: https://youtu.be/pLYhixfGDZc 🔔 Subscribe to Dave & Kathy Unplugged to follow the rest of our Mediterranean cruise: Naples, Taormina, Ephesus, Mykonos and Athens as well as more RV, Travel, Food & Tech content and fun! Please also subscribe to the Out of Spec Dave and Out of Spec Deals YouTube Channels Buying a new or used car? Check out www.outofspecdeals.com to learn more about our newly launched car buying negotiation service where we help take the stress out of the car buying experience with the goal of also saving you $. #Ephesus #HouseOfVirginMary #Kusadasi #Santorini #Turkey #SilkRugFactory #LibraryOfCelsus #MarbleStreet #GreatTheatre #CruiseVlog #DaveAndKathyUnplugged