Monday, July 03, 2006

Western Türkiye: Ruins

The family gracing ancient columns at the ruins of Priene.

The remains of a column still holding the icon of a local god. No wonder the place is in ruins!

During the first day of our road trip, we left Çeşme and drove south along the coast and stopped to visit three sites of ruins - the cities of Priene and Miletos, and Didim (Didyma) with the remains of the temple of Apollo. We followed the Menderes River (the source of the word "meander" and a very aptly named river) and ended up in a Pansiyon in Dalyan.

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