Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Turkey - Pamukkale

Next day an other bus ride this time only 3 hours from Selçuk to Pakmukkale.

Pakmukkale is also small town quite touristy. The hotel has a swimming pool and as soon as we arrived we jumped in the pool. It is hot but so far I haven’t really suffered of heat as all buses and hotels have air conditioning.

In the evening we went up to this ca mountain. It looks like there is snow on the mountain but in fact is grayish-white limestone. There are beautiful calcified formations, terraces, falls and stalactites. Everyone has to take the shoes off for the first part to conserve the area.

Up at the top there are magnificent ruins of the ancient town Hierapolis. The view from up top is amazing. We walked around and stayed up there for hours.
Sunset was beautiful!

1 comment:

Mark said...

I'm glad you're liking it. We'll have to compare embassy/visa horror stories when we get back. ;-)