Kusadasi (Kuşadası) is one of the most swollen resort towns on the southern Aegean Coast, overflowing with shiploads of tourists in summer who enlarge the year-round population several times over. Once a small fishing village, today the busy town is packed with curios and carpet shops; its proximity to the ruins of Ephesus (Efes) making it an ideal base for Aegean cruise ships.
Despite the frenzied tourism, Kusadasi is situated amid splendid coastal scenery and several significant archaeological sites, including the three well-preserved Ionian settlements of Miletus (Milet), Didyma (Didim) and Priene. There are plenty of good restaurants and hotels, and ferries link it with the nearby Greek islands of Mykonos and Samos.
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