Izmir Airport to Ephesus Drive

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Here's how to drive south from Izmir's Adnan Menderes Airport to Selçuk, Sirince, Ephesus and Kusadasi.

If your car needs fuel, you can buy it at a fuel station on the way out of the airport. There are several other fuel stations outside the airport on the road south.

(Returning your rental car to the airport, if you want to fill it with fuel at this station, you must either make an illegal left turn into the station, or go all the way around the airport traffic pattern to reach the station legally.)

As you exit the airport, follow signs for Torbali and Aydin (not for Izmir). You'll enter a multi-lane divided highway with traffic signals, which is the traditional highway south to Selçuk, Sirince, Ephesus and Kusadasi.

After 25 km, just north of the town of Torbali, the highway intersects the Otoyol (high-speed toll highway). I recommend that you ease and shorten your trip by entering the Otoyol, taking a ticket, and speeding along to the Selçuk-Kusadasi exit (see below). The toll is not excessive.

If you choose to follow the older, slower highway, you'll drive through several towns with traffic signals:

—34 km south of the airport the old highway becomes two-lane, undivided.

—At 38 km, bear right for Selçuk, Ephesus and Kusadasi.

—48 km: Otoyol intersection for Selçuk and Kusadasi. After the exit, on the old highway, is a sign reading "Selçuk 12 km."

—62 km: enter Selçuk. The Hotel Kalehan is on your right just before a Shell fuel station. Just after these landmarks, look for a small sign on the left (east) side of the boulevard pointing the way to Sirince (7 km/4.4 mi). If you're not going to Sirince, continue along the boulevard. After one km, at a traffic signal, turn right for Ephesus and Kusadasi.

—Heading toward Ephesus and Kusadasi, soon you'll pass the Artemision archeological site on the right, then the Ephesus archeological site on the left.

—At the next traffic signal, turn left for Kusadasi (15 km), or go straight for Pamucak beach.

—82 km from the airport, you're in Kusadasi.

To return to Adnan Menderes Airport from Kusadasi, Selçuk, Sirince and Ephesus, just follow highway signs for Izmir and the airport. I recommend the Otoyol to save time and energy.