The Cave of the Seven Sleepers on the slopes of Panayır Dağı (Mt Pion, 155m) near the northern entrance to the Ephesus ruins…
Mass: Every Sunday 10am Feast day of St Mary: 15 August A popular excursion from Selcuk is to Meryemana (St Mary), a chapel built on the…
At the point where the Küçük Menderes (Meander) river empties into the Aegean a wide swathe of beautiful sand stretches itself out. Since…
Just outside Selçuk, a brief detour towards the village of Belevi will bring you to the remains of a mausoleum that may have…
Worth knowing about in particular for boy children who may be tiring of ruins is the Open-Air Train Museum south of Selcuk in…
As the sign in the window says “Not all ice cream is ice cream”. The best known Turkish ice cream is Maraş dövme…
Far and away the most popular item on most Turkish menus is the kebab, a general term for any piece of meat that…
The Turkish lira is made up of 100 kuruş and comes in units of 5, 10, 25 and 50 kuruş coins, and 10,…
Like most of Europe Turkey operates its electricity on 220 volts. However, it uses plugs with two round pins which means that visitors…
Coffee was introduced to Turkey from Yemen in the early 16th century but until recently the drink had fallen from fashion, its place…