After driving 1 hour you will be entering to Virgin Mary’s House. Your guide will inform you about the Virgin Mary’s House. You are going to visit the holly site where Pope Paul VI visited and Pope Benedict XVI celebrated mass.
You will have your free time of 30 or 45 minutes in the area. That is just an amazing place where you could feel peace and something holly is around you. If you wish you could pray in the house, light a candle and drink holly water. If you would like to carry some holly water back home you could either fill the bottle you brought or buy a bottle of holly water.

You will meet our coach in the exit and after 5 minutes driving you will be entering the cave of Seven Sleepers. It is believed that those seven believers escaped from Ephesus and hidden in this cave and slept about two hundred years.
Artemis Temple is in 5 minutes driving distance to the cave of Seven Sleepers. You will enter with the leading of your private guide.

The temple of Artemis is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. It has been built in the areas of Ephesus on a flat area which has over the centuries turned into a swamp. Today one can only see the ruins of the foundations of this marvelous construction of the Hellenistic Age, entirely made of marble and full of sculptured columns' capitals and shafts.

After driving 5minutes from The Temple of Artemis you will visit Basalica of St. John with the leading of your guide.
The cross shaped basilica was built by the Emperor Justinian over the tomb of St. John the Apostle, the Basilica, now in ruins, once rivaled St. Sophia in size. See the remaining graceful columns and mosaics of the Basilica as you take in the panorama of the rural Selcuk countryside and the ruins of the Temple of Artemis.

Visiting Turkish handicraft center where you will learn local culture and you can see the hospitality of the country.

You will be back to the Izmir port within 6-6,5 hours from the beginning of the tour.

* If you would like to visit Terrace Houses in Ephesus there will be an extra entrance fee of 15$ which you may pay in the entrance of Terrace Houses.

Terrace Houses located behind the shops on the south side of Curetes Street near the Library of Celsus. These are luxurious private houses, known as the Slope Houses for their location on the slopes of Mt. Coressus (Bulbuldag). Occupied from the 1st century to 7th century AD, the Slope Houses have been compared to the 1st century villas of Pompeii in importance. The Terrace Houses are also known as the Slope Houses and Hanghausen (in German, because the archaeologists are Austrian).

* Ephesus could be really hot from May till the end of September.

Please don't forget to wear a hat and carry a bottle of water with you during your tour.