We left our guide and car at Ezurum and flew to Izmir, changing planes in Istanbul. We picked up our rental car at the Izmir airport and drove to Seljuk, a nice town near Ephesus.

We drove to Ephesus, paid for parking, and learned that we should have parked at the top of the ruin so we could walk down. Purely by chance, the man who pointed this out to us told us that we could have a free ride to the top if we would spend 10 minutes at a rug factory, and we did. We ended up spending about 30 minutes there talking to the British woman who runs it about women in Turkey. We did not buy a rug.

My Canon shutter started breaking here, which is why many shots are blackish.