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After docking near Rhodes Town, we proceeded by bus to tour other parts of the island before returning to the medieval town in the afternoon.  Rhodes was once a prosperous trading center and also famous for its eclectic oratory school of which Julius Caesar was a student.  The statue of the sun god, Helios, once stood 100 feet above the harbor and served as a beacon to passing ships.  The statue was considered one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Two small statues stand in its place today (104 shows one) commemorating the places where the original statue's feet touched the base.

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410 feet above the little town of Lindos, stands the Acropolis, containing the 4th century BC Temple of Athena Lindia.  It is a good walk to the summit but the view from the top was spectacular. This was considered one of the most sacred sites of the ancient world, visited by Alexander the Great and Helen of Troy. #s 111-112, 115 show St. Paul's Bay where St. Paul is said to have landed in 51 AD to preach Christianity.  Today, the bay is home to a nude beach. 

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Later, we visited a pottery factory where one worker created the pottery shown in #121 in less than a minute.  Other workers spent their days hand painting pottery (123), which seems a very tedious occupation.