Can You Explore Ancient Ephesus by Yourself? Ruins, Cats, Museums | Turkish Coastal Roadtrip Izmir

[@lemurcat]

Yay, cats!! I love that you guys incorporate just the right amount of cats in the vids, and your love for them comes thru beautifully

[@NearFromHome]

🥰 This one of the nicest comments we’ve received. Thank you

[@Robin-s3o3c]

I'm going to Ephesus in December and after viewing your video, I just can't wait. Thank you for the tour

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks so much! Hope you have a nice time! We did a whole series on Turkey if you are interested!

[@izzyhere]

Great video, thanks for sharing your pointers on the Museum Card.

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks!

[@MYTravelBF]

Fantastic explanation of Ancient Ephesus! It seems like an incredible site, even if it can be overrun by tourists. When we visit we'll definitely follow your tips to avoid the crowds as best we can!

[@NearFromHome]

🥰🥰🥰 thanks so much!

[@eastexotic]

I did this with my mom and my brother. Start at the opposite entrance from the tour bus parking lot and bus station. Get there before 8! Relax, drink coffee and pomegranate juice waiting for gate to open. Enjoy Ephesus alone and in peace for at least an hour or two. Cruise ship passengers will still be at their breakfast while you can enjoy the sites all to yourselves.

[@NearFromHome]

Yes! great advice. Wish we had woken up earlier to do this. Luckily we were there in the off season.

[@limnatis]

You guys had a great 4th quarter comeback for the museum card! Great series, you've definitely whetted my appetite for checking out Turkey soon

[@NearFromHome]

Thank you so much! I want you to know that Ben and I can’t stop laughing at your comment. I’m glad someone was as committed as us to the museum card challenge. 😅

[@limnatis]

Ha! Well I really enjoyed the Salzburg card and Verona card on this recent vacation I just took.I remember those endorphins from a nice deal!

[@NearFromHome]

@@limnatis hahah

[@thegallivanthropologists]

Excellent! We are going to see this tomorrow when it opens! Big bucket list trip for us. Keep up the sharing.

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks so much! Have a wonderful time!

[@ZoeFang-iq9mi]

CANNOT WAIT TO SEE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS MOON GODDESS

[@NearFromHome]

:D

[@operagroupie]

I was there last month. Incredible weather, so hot. Ephesus was the highlight of my trip to Türkiye. Such interesting history. One day wasn’t enough time.

[@NearFromHome]

Same for us! Wish we had spent a night in the town. :O

[@andicocozzo8904]

Wow! Your Turkey series is incredible! Turkey has never been on my radar to visit. You make it look so beautiful AND appealing. Seriously considering it! Thank you for the amazing videos!

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks so much! 🥰 This really means a lot as we put so much effort into it! I hope you can make it out there!

[@efthimistsiadimos8131]

@@NearFromHome Ephesus is Greece no Turkey...everywhre there are ancient greek letters and Heraklitos is one of the best philosopher in the world...This is Ionian greek people!!!

[@melissaha8475]

It is amazing that one column remains for Artemis. From what it was wow

[@NearFromHome]

I know right! I can't believe how huge just one column is :O

[@TheDjcarlos67]

We were almost alone when we visited Ephesus. 110°c tho. Those marble floors were scorching. What a place😎

[@NearFromHome]

Hahaha another travel hack. I could never, i can't with the heat. :)

[@bonsailady]

Thank you for sharing your video, Were going cruising this Sept 2024 with my friends, We dont book any scursion, so we do DIY. We love to walk and shop,

[@NearFromHome]

:)

[@lornasadventures]

Quite lovely, I love Turkish people too. When on my Camino de Norte last year the first person I encountered who spoke English was a wonderful woman from Turkey who didn't speak Spanish- She shared about this being a place I would like, and now seeing your video I agree wholeheartedly- Love all the cats and dogs too🐱🐕🌅

[@NearFromHome]

:) Absolutely. So jealous that you have hiked the Camino de Norte :O

[@lornasadventures]

@@NearFromHome It rained every single day lol very few yellow arrows and many places closed or to their limit for social distancing. Still my favorite Camino memories were from the night I was stranded out in the rain(no cabs) surrounded by kitties and Two lovely Abuelas gave me a ride to the hostel I had booked. Lovely lovely kind generous people. 😍

[@aresgalamatis7022]

@15:00 I was expecting to hear the sack of Rome 1.5k years ago, but instead I got a pop reference 😂

[@NearFromHome]

lol ;D

[@sandraagungagung9356]

yes, I really like to visit this place.

[@NearFromHome]

It’s really great! I hope you do. If you like this, you’ll probably like our other videos on Ruins in Turkey 😅

[@sandraagungagung9356]

@@NearFromHome Ya I will check. Thank again. I really like this place, enev I never see it, but my feeling telling that it is a good place to visit. thanks. ya keep in touch.

[@wdl33]

Hi guys. you have done a wonderful job of the Turkye series. we here in Kusadasi right now and a bit lost as to where to buy the MUSEUM CARD for this area (Aegean?). Our first port of call is EPHESUS, would really appreciate a helping hand in the way of a link. we are a couple of oldies in our 70s, who love to watch your vids how you two are getting out and doing it, enjoying life. 😀

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks so much! You can buy them at any site that participates in the museum card system. It is very well marked at the cash register. The employees can also help you pick the type of card that is best for your itinerary. We failed to explain that there are many types of museum cards depending on what part of Turkey you are in. That's what we did. Hope this helps!

[@wdl33]

@@NearFromHome Thank you so much for your reply.👍

[@zalwyocnalb1361]

Now the price for single entrance to Ephesus is up to 400 liras and the price for the Turkey museum card is 2500 liras. The prices has becoming extremely wild. Its so bad the state of the country? I cannot find another reason why prices multiple by 4.

[@NearFromHome]

WHAT. There's no point of even buying the museum card for that price. :O

[@zalwyocnalb1361]

@@NearFromHome does not make sense even to enter to any museum. Feel more like scammed when you see the prices before.

[@ReePent]

@@NearFromHome Feb 2024, and it is 4000 TL!!!

[@abigailchua5624]

hi, nice video.. is the road trip from izmir to ephesus an easy drive? and how about parking area? is it easy to park?

[@NearFromHome]

I thought all the driving logistics were really easy! Parking was no problem as well!

[@abigailchua5624]

@@NearFromHome are the parking at ephesus and pamakulle got parking fees? or free parking?

[@ayushisharma9406]

Hey lovely video, how was the weather there? I can see you guys are wearing jackets. In which month did you visit?

[@NearFromHome]

Hi! Thanks! We were there in January, so basically as cold as it gets. This was shot on the warmest and sunniest day of the trip. It was around 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit, but very sunny, so at times we got a little sweaty from walking so much, and took our coats off. I would say the temperature during the entire 2 weeks we were there was 40-60 degrees!

[@BackpackersCompass]

Came across your channel through video of Salzburg, and now see Ephesus, which I visited in March and is my last video, as your last video. Awesome videos guys! But you forgot the awesome wine town, just 10 km from Ephesus 🍷😁

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks so much! Glad you also liked Ephesus. What wine town?????

[@BackpackersCompass]

@@NearFromHome sirince 👌

[@mirthanegrete9330]

Hi which month did you go to Turkey? It looks cold

[@NearFromHome]

We went in January. It was around 50 degrees Fahrenheit. It was cold when it was cloudy and rainy, and warm when the sun was out.

[@mirthanegrete9330]

@@NearFromHome Thank you so much for getting back to me I appreciated very much. Now I have a better idea of how cold it gets in the winter months and will plan my trip to Turkey accordingly. Have a great day

[@NearFromHome]

@@mirthanegrete9330 :)

[@gracitaestepa2395]

thank you for this excellent tour . i pray and hope i’ll see this place in the future . also i would like to see the house of Blessed Virgin Mary

[@NearFromHome]

I hope you do too! It was excellent!

[@shannonnewton2329]

Appreciate the content! I see you both are wearing jackets and the thumbnail says a year ago. What time of year was this? As I'll be there at the end of December! I just want to pack accordingly. Thank you!

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks! We were there in January! It was around 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Some days were really sunny, and some were really rainy.

[@shannonnewton2329]

@@NearFromHome Thank you so much!

[@emileabdelkarim3797]

Hello a great video I am going to Alacati next month and for sure I will visit ephesus can we go early before crowd or is there any bus arrive there directly ? Thank you in advance and keep going ❤️❤️❤️

[@NearFromHome]

I am not sure of the public transit situation. I do know there is a train from Izmir, so porbably!

[@lazy_explorer]

Wow everything is 3x more expensive now and this video was made only a year ago.

[@NearFromHome]

That's what I have heard :O

[@tuanoful]

Hilarious, this video is 2 years old. I went there 2 weeks ago, and the blue crane is still there

[@NearFromHome]

LOL

[@shanewilliams3095]

How can I sen some Scripture charts to Ephesus in Turke

[@larrysincredibletrailers2213]

You didn't show the Amphitheater near the buses.

[@golgumbazguide...4113]

Explore Golgumbaz, Bijapur, South India 🇮🇳

[@NearFromHome]

one day :,)

[@thespartan8476]

The exterminator of ancient Sparta. Is the French Latin Catholic priest, Michel Fourmont. Fourmont traveled throughout Greece totally destroying ancient sites and the complete destruction of Sparta. While thousands of Greeks were dying from the plague. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of London. Also the butcher of the Acropolis of Athens. The Scottish, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. The Scottish, Elgin did not just obtain the Parthenon marbles, but also many other sculptures and artifacts from the Acropolis and around Greece. The English, Lord Cockerell removed the frieze from the temple at Bassae around the same time that Elgin acquired the Parthenon marbles. The British Museum, London, have become the world’s largest receivers of stolen property, and the great majority of their loot is not even on public display. I believe people should not visit the British Museum, London. It only encourages them to continue looting other people's cultural heritage and identity. And than blaming others' for the trouble's they have caused.

[@brubcruz]

Great video man, thank you!! I been there more or less a month ago. I tell ya, the 600 lyra you pay for the museum pass now you buy only 3 beers.... The museum pass actually is 165 Euro. Look like prices are skyrocketing in Tukey. Also, for the cat lovers, I didn't see any in Epheso. You found a great whether to visit, because walk all that place under a 40 degree sun is not a easy thing haha

[@NearFromHome]

Thanks so much! oooooof. Several people have told us that the museum pass price has skyrocketed. That's such a shame. We saw about 30 cats and the man who takes care of the at the entrance from our video. :O I wonder what happened.

[@oldschooldamnawesome]

40 euros now just for entrance fee is ridiculous

[@NearFromHome]

yes, I think all of the prices have been increases massively since we shot these videos. :(

[@yif365]

What about the hippodrome ?

[@hidaniel1757]

Duuuuude, you missed all the facts, the history embedded in those ruins: the statue of Nike, an ancient board game right next to the amphitheater, the symbol of Cupid or Eros, Aesclepius, the brothel houses, the fantastic facades of the public bath houses, there are even footprints you could see, you didn't mention the four muses and their history. Sadly you decided to talk about the weather. People really go, visit these places just as a bucket list :(

[@NearFromHome]

How unfamiliar with my channel must you be? lol. I’m clearly just a bucket list traveler, that’s why I went to Cyzicus. My channel though is not a history channel, it’s a travel and logistics channel. My goal is not to list the Wikipedia entry of the different sites, it’s to help people actually get to these places themselves. You wouldn’t rightly comment against a history channel complaining they didn’t explain how tour busses work. Apologies for not making the video you would want it to be, but that’s the beauty of KZbin; go and grab a camera, make it happen, bring your vision to life, post it free for the world to see, and then have people complain at you and accuse you of being a vapid traveler ;)

[@hypercomms2001]

I hitchhiked to selcuk, And visited Ephesus on a donkey… in 1987….

[@NearFromHome]

woah. That is extremely cool.

[@hypercomms2001]

@@NearFromHome what impressed me being from Melbourne, Australia…. When I arrived in selcuk, I found the Australian carpet shop! That was back in 1987… I wonder if it’s still there?

[@bluebellbeatnik4945]

I will get roman ruins fatigue if I do too much of this so out of ephesus and pergamom, i think I'll go to ephesus.

[@NearFromHome]

Roman ruins fatigue?! No such thing! But it’s true, if you can only go to one place then Ephesus is the most exciting. Though that trip to Pergamon felt like a real adventure.

[@orkunilbeysayman3545]

Well ı think that any and every historical place should be experienced with a guide. Yes ı love just looking at the majestic colombs and relievos, having that nonpareil feeling. But knowing the history behind it makes me feel like ı was there when that happened with the ambient and everything. p.s.:I live in İzmir but this urge to know more is not because ı live in the region. This might come as a nonsense but i think without knowing the purpose of the making makes it kinda meaningless.

[@NearFromHome]

We agree. By guide, we really mean big tour bus group. I don‘t think there is much purpose, because it is not hard to get there and buy the tickets yourself. The tour bus prices are a bit of an up sell, and being there with a huge group kind of ruins the experience for me. I also think it is worth it to get a guide. We did not because we were so focused on filming, but we did read a lot about the history before hand.

[@mehmetyuksel9677]

Ben de yazdım aynı konuyu. Sanada bu bu rehber konusunda yazdığın için çok teşekkürler. İzmir'de yaşıyorum,emekli hir rehberim

[@orkunilbeysayman3545]

@@mehmetyuksel9677 Fikrimi desteklediğiniz için ben teşekkür ederim. Ben de turizm rehberliği okuyorum, bu yüzden bu konular üzerine biraz titreyebiliyorum.

[@maximumaxiom6823]

It is very likely most things about the history we have been told are lies; If one does not have a first hand knowledge about things, then one should not talk like one knows about it.

[@NearFromHome]

One might be pretty sure every one with first hand knowledge has been dead for…….over one thousand years ;)

[@maximumaxiom6823]

@@NearFromHome That is the whole point; we will never know what actually happened; however it is very likely there where different "people" living back then, possible there was flood/mud flood, possible many structures are simply built/rebuilt to attract tourists and maybe fit in some narrative, possible Jesus never existed which makes the last dwelling of the virgin Mary a fairy tale. What they say: truth is stranger than a fiction. Possible those amphitheatres where not theatres at all, maybe some healing device. We just do not know and can not know.

[@mehmetyuksel9677]

How dare you to say someting negative about the tour guides? You take them or not. When you young it is easy.....

[@NearFromHome]

My dislike it not personal to the tour guides, but to the tour companies that rush people in and out of these sites too quickly. I saw so many groups go by, no doubt they paid far more than me to be there and got way less.

[@nezperce2767]

Heraclitus or Strabo wete turks?

[@claraasta]

Why do you knock tourists soo much ? You can't expect to have it to yourself !!! you come across as a bit of a snob mate .

[@NearFromHome]

I don’t think I mocked tourists once, considering I am one. What I don’t like though are these massive tour groups that shuttle you in and out like cattle giving you barely an hour to see the whole thing. It’s an unfortunate waste of everyone’s money and time. They aren’t getting good value and it’s the sort of thing that leads to over-tourism and site degradation. Unfortunately most people feel that these awful fast groups are the only ways to see these sites too, which is why I try to push back a little on it.

[@Truthseeker371]

I found many Turkish historical places touristic and disappointing. You need to pay for admission and toilet. I decided to skip many places. Instead I enjoy the videos that are more visual and full of information. Many places in Turkey are not worth visiting, unfortunately. I prefer Greece for the archeological ruins, variety of food, and more friendly locals.

[@NearFromHome]

Couldn’t agree less unfortunately. I thought our road trip to see ruins in Turkey was incredible. You should check out the rest of my series though, perhaps I can change your mind ;)

[@aliceakgyun1938]

Comment belongs to a Greek😂 Thank u for the amazing video🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 Turkey is always fantastic

[@olinda013]

What places should I skip? I'm going there in January

[@TheteamDteam-l2b]

Agreed with you, really was quite shocking.

[@gintaginta5027]

Unfortunately, ruins in Greece you can not compare with foundings in Turkey. And not only from Rome and Greece but even befor civilizations.