The Rest of Turkey

 I’m a stressed little blogger right now. Super behind. So here’s the rest of Turkey:

Wednesday we went to Assos and Pergamon. Places where Paul preached. He docked his boat right across from the island of Lesbos (English majors unite- you know Sapphos and Lesbos.) They were beautiful ruins in an amazing country side view.

Then we went to Ephesus! As in, Ephesians the book in the Bible. Yeah. It was sweeeeet. There are a ton of cool ruins, including the full façade of the library and the full theater, which seats 25,000 people. That’s right. Twenty.five.thousand.  I already did a post about it.

Then we went to Sardis, where we saw a synagogue next to a Greek gymnasium, which shows the Hellenization of Judaism way back when. John ripped his pants while he and Kyler were wrestling. It’s fine.

Then we went to Prienne! There was just the usual stone ruins, columns, theater, but then three cool things....an untouched Temple of Athena and sheep and flowers. 

Mos ancient sites are found like this, they're put back together. But this one is interesting because it's how it would have been found, and also because the pieces weren't stolen. 


That night we went to Bursa and went to the Grand Mosque. We

Muslims have to ritually cleanse themselves before each time they pray (5x/day). So devout.

the rest in the next blog.

M