Turkey Day five


Today we headed to the Temple of Artemis and had a guided tour of the ancient city and stadium of Ephesus. It was really cool to see the ancient city, especially the library and the stadium really amazing.

View of Ephesus



Old toilets at Ephesus - The guy sitting on the toilet was from our tour he was very entertaining :)

The crew with the ruins of ephesus library in the background

A closer view of part of the ruins of the library

I was playing with this cat, then one of the guys from my tour came over and started playing with it only for the cat to scratch and bite him.. he must of liked me

Believed to be the first advertisement

The Great theatre at Ephesus - It  use to seat around 25,000 people

After visiting the ancient city we headed to a carpet weaving show where we were shown how the carpets are made and shown the different carpets and why they have particular patterns woven in them - for example certain symbols will be symbolic to certain areas of Turkey. We did end up buying a carpet, they are very good sellers! It increases in value the more you walk on it, cant say that about many things!! haha.

Carpet weaving

Silk worms - The brush that you can see is lightly brushed over the silk worms to extract the silk and the silk is then placed on the wheel to spin the silk from the worm. Then at the end it is just the worm left. It was very weird to touch! From each silk worm was 1 mile of silk

Turkish delight shop - we got to taste a variety of sweets