Ephesus Tour: Christian History Exploration

Explore Biblical Ephesus on a private tour. Visit historic sites, walk ancient streets, and capture stunning photos with your expert guide.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Best of Ephesus Tours - You will be met by Best of Ephesus Tours
  • Kusadasi - Drive from Kusadasi
  • Kusadasi Bazaar - Shopping area around the port
  • Ancient City of Ephesus - The best preserved Roman City in the world
  • Meryemana (The Virgin Mary’s House) - House of the virgin Mary
  • The Temple of Artemis - One of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
What's Included
  • Fully air-conditioned brand new vehicle with separate driver
  • Professional licensed local tour guide
  • Port/hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Private tour
  • All taxes
  • All parking fees
What's Not Included
  • Entrance fees ( We will arrange the tickets in advance, so you will skip long ticket lines
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratitude (suggested)
Additional Information

THIS IS A PRIVATE TOUR ONLY FOR YOU AND YOUR TRAVEL COMPANIONS. Enjoy your full day, private guided tour focused on Christian History in Ephesus. Visit the Ancient City of Ephesus, House of the Virgin Mary, Saint John Basilica, and Temple of Artemis. Walk the same streets as Apostle Paul and John, feel the serene atmosphere of the House of the Virgin…

Location
Best of Ephesus Tours
Turgut Ozal Bulv. Aybuke Sitesi, B-Blok D1
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Kimberly_g
Jul 9, 2025
Must do tour! - Be prepared to walk. Way too hot on our visit. But bus was fabulous…clean & air conditioned. Goksu was a wonderful guide—so knowledgeable and flexible to our group needs.
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Gilda
Jun 28, 2024
Murat made Ephesus come alive ! - We had the absolute BEST time with our guide Murat!!! This is a man who knows his history and made our experience come alive with his interesting historical facts and stories about each site. Our 10yr and 14yr old sons were mesmerized as were we learning about ancient Ephesus and its history. We are highly considering coming back to Turkey to explore more with Murat as he is one of the most knowledgeable, interesting and fun tour guides we have ever had !
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Tina_savage1
Jul 21, 2023
Magnificent city and guide - Absolutely wonderful. Burack was our guide and he was so professional and personable. He shared so much history with us. He took us to the main attractions first to get ahead of the ship crowds and stayed with us in lines to ensure our safety. He gave us privacy at The Virgin Mary's house and gave us all the time we wanted. He then took us through some shopping. The Ancient City of Ephesus, Celcius Library, Odeon,, St Johns Basilica. He took us to a wonderful outdoor venue for lunch. We watched rug weaving, now I understand why carpets are so pricy. It was a wonderful day in a beautiful country with an exceptional tour guide. We got even more than we had hoped for out of this tour. Well worth the money.
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Kennyh83
Jul 28, 2022
Great way to spend the day - This was a great day with the family - Nigal (not the correct spelling) and the bus driver did a great job. Very thorough and well planned
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Chrissie
Nov 14, 2019
Best tour of our trip! - My husband and I had the best time on this specific tour. Unfortunately we are handicapped and there were a lot of things we could not do, but our driver and Burak did a wonderful job with adjusting to our needs. We had such a good time communicating and learning new things on this tour and our tour guide was very informative and educated. He was very kind and respectful and because the walkways were very bad he always offered his arm so I would not fall. Both the driver and the tour guide were very much gentlemen. We would highly recommend this company as we had the best time. Our tour guide also took our video camera and did a personal tour for the places We could not walk to because of our disabilities. They both went above and beyond.
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Msudvm
Nov 11, 2019
Biblical Ephesus Tour - Leyla was an excellent guide! She made sure we had "tour" time as well as time on our own to explore. She was very knowledgeable and informative. We enjoyed our visit to Mary's house in edition to ancient Ephesus. We highly recommend this tour.
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Nmer123
Sep 6, 2019
Tour - I took a tour with this company, to effesus, as a solo traveller, with mehmet the guide, he was so professional, very knowledgebale, i really enjoy the time with him. The tour was great. Do not hasitate to book with this company
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Anne-sophie
Aug 19, 2019
Great experience with tour guide - Mehmet was an amazing guide to visit the old city, we were 2 couples in the tour, met in the morning saw few places had a very nice lunch at a local place then did more sight seeing. It was a much more interesting visit than using an audio guide or being with a big group! being only few allowed us to ask questions and interact with Mehmet turning the visit into conversations about the sights, culture.. I highly recommend to use a guide to visit these places and learn all the things that are not on paper! They also helped us find a guide in Istanbul that was as good! Very friendly and responsive agency, prices are fair not like other agencies we contacted!
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Globetou
Aug 19, 2019
Private Ephesus Tour - It was a fantastic experience.5 Star from begininning to the end.We were picked from the hotel punchually.Mehmet was great.Very knowlagable and answere all our questions.Elf was also extremely helpful.I recommend them to anyone visiting Turkey.
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Kimw893
Aug 18, 2019
Guided tour - We had an amazing tour with our tour guide Mehmet. He was very friendly, considerate and knowledgable. He paced our tour very well and we saw everything we wanted to in a the short time we had available. An excellent service which I highly recommend.
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From $38
up to 15 guests
2 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).