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Day 1:  LATE ARRIVAL DENIZLI AIRPORT – PAMUKKALE (d)
Early arrival at Denizli Cardak (DNZ) Airport. Meet and transfer to Pamukkale.
Transfer to the hotel in Pamukkale.
Dinner at the hotel in Pamukkale.
Day 2:  PAMUKKALE – KUSADASI (b, l, d)
Breakfast at the hotel.
In Pamukkale visit the travertines (terraces and basins formed by the calcium rich deposits of the thermal springs) of Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) and the surrounding the ancient Roman city of Hierapolis with its Roman baths converted to early Christian churches, the amphitheater, the Martyrium of St Philip and the extensive necropolis featuring the various architectural styles of ancient Asia Minor.
Lunch at a local restaurant.
Depart for Aphrodisias, unique with the cult image of the Goddess Aphrodite and famous for its ancient marble school of sculpture in the Hellenistic and Roman period, the city was named Stauropolis (City of the Cross) in the Christian era.
Continue to Kusadasi.
Dinner at the hotel.
Day 3:  KUSADASI – IZMIR LATE DEPARTURE (b, l)
Breakfast at the hotel.
Today’s visits concentrate on the Selcuk region with its ancient ruins and seaside resorts.
Before arrival at Ephesus, visit the remains of the Artemision, one of the ancient world’s Seven Wonders.
Visit the ancient city of Ephesus. Highlights will be the Odeon, Celsus Library, Hadrian’s Temple, Trajan’s Fountain, the Agora, the Scholasticia Baths, the Marble Street, the Amphitheater with its 25.000 seating capacity and the Arcadian Way leading down to the port which is now silted up. In the Selcuk Museum we will see the statues of the Goddess Artemis and later visit the Isabey Mosque from the Seljuk era.
Lunch at a local restaurant.
On Mount Nightingale, the House of Mary (Meryemana), a pilgrimage site where Mary is believed to have spent her last days, will be visited.
Transfer to Izmir airport (ADB) for your onward flight.
Highlights
* Artemision, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
* Amphitheater of Ephesus
* Celsus Library
* Isabey Mosque
* Pilgrimage site of Mary's House on Mount Nightingale
* Marble sculpture school of Aphrodisias
* Natural chalk travertines of Pamukkale
* Ancient Hierapolis and its extensive necropolis
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