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Before driving south from Izmir's Adnan Menderes Airport to Selçuk, Şirince, Ephesus and Kuşadası, have a look at my Izmir Region Transport Map.

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, there is one fuel station on the highway to the airport afteryou leave the Otoyol (expressway), and another just inside the airport grounds, on the left as you enter.)

As you exit the airport, follow the green signs for Efes (Ephesos) and Aydın (not for Izmir). You'll enter a multi-lane divided highway with traffic signals, which is the traditional highway south to Selçuk, Şirince, Ephesus and Kuşadası.

After 10 minutes' drive, the highway intersects the Otoyol (high-speed, limited-acces toll highway). You can stay on the old highway if you like, which goes through towns and is much slower, or you can enter the Otoyol, which is what I recommend.

Note that you cannot pay tolls with cash! You must pay via either OGS (automatic toll transponder) or KGS (prepaid RFID toll card). Stop before the toll booths, park your car, go into the office, buy a TCK toll card, and have them load credit onto it (perhaps TL6 to TL10 or more, depending on how frequently you plan to use otoyols). The toll for the drive from the airport interchange to the Selçuk interchange is TL2, by the way. More...

As you enter the Otoyol, there are no signs here for Selçuk or Ephesus, so follow signs for Aydın.

After 10 minutes' drive you approach the first interchange, for Torbalı. Do not exit. Continue on the Otoyol, following signs for Selçuk and Aydın.

Just over 30 minutes' drive from the airport is the Selçuk interchange, clearly marked for Selçuk, Ephesus and Kuşadası. Leave the Otoyol by this exit (the toll is TL2), following signs to Selçuk and Efes (Ephesos). After passing the toll gates and curving to the left, look for a castle on the high mountaintop in front of you.

	Selçuk fortress on Ayasoluk Hill.

Follow the divided four-lane highway south. About 45 minutes after leaving the airport you will see the fortress on Ayasoluk Hill looming above Selçuk, and enter the town.

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 Şirince (8 km/5 mi). If you're not going to Şirince, continue along the boulevard. After one km, at a traffic signal, turn right for Efes (Ephesus) and Kuşadası.

—Heading toward Ephesus and Kuşadası, 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 Kuşadası (15 km), or go straight for Pamucak beach.

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

To return to Adnan Menderes Airport from Kuşadası, Selçuk, Şirince and Ephesus, just follow highway signs for Izmir and the airport. I recommend the Otoyol to save time and energy, but remember about how you must pay the tolls.

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