Sunday, October 17, 2010

Turkey 2010 Day 8

St. Nicholas' church in the town where he was a Bishop.



Another German tourist

This is now where the river Myros forms bay and connects to the sea.

The tel (hill where a town stood) of Colossae.

Almost brought him home
Cool Lycian rock cut royal tombe in Myra.

A couple more pictures of the Roman era harbor at Myra (modern Demre). The harbor area has silted up and is now more of a shallow lake and marsh. This is the harbor Paul and his Roman guard Julius changed ships in on their way to Rome. The ruins in the background are of a grainary on the harbor shore that was built by emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century.