Pamukkale Thermal Pools

Continuing on my solo traveling romantical tour of Turkey I headed east towards the magical unique geological sites southern turkey has become famous for. Three hour bus ride we stopped at Pamukkale translated to "the Cotton Castle" an ancient civilization site where mineral springs bubble out of the ground w/ high levels of Calcium, Carbon …

We decided to make our trip more like a holiday and slept in later on Sunday, then got up for another fantastic guest house breakfast. The forecast hadn't predicted good weather, but things were looking sunny and clear, so we made a slight alteration to our plans. We had intended to split the day, spending part of it back at the travertines, and …

Upon returning to Pamukkale, we grabbed a quick lunch and then walked in the direction of the travertines. We paid our 20TL entrance fee and then walked to the start of the terraces. We had to take off our shoes until we were at the top because they aren't allowed in order to protect the mineral deposits.

As I mentioned in an earlier blog …

This was one of the most beautiful sites that we've witnessed so far!! and we mean BEAU-TI-FUL. There's no other place on earth like it, where you can walk 500+ feet high with no shoes, in bare feet, surrounded by a white winterland overflowing with warm light blue, crystal clear hot springs.


This special place is called Pamukkale - …

... at this spa hotel where we were going to have lunch. We had an hour to kill before lunch so we checked out the mud baths and thermal pools which didn't look to appealing to me. I read by the pool and cursed our tour guide who said there would not be an ...

... nbsp; Simply an ancient city from around 200 B.C., Hierapolis is, in my opinion, a must see sight in Turkey.  From sacred thermal pools filled with collapsed columns to the massive necropolis filled with sarcophagi and tombs to the 12,000 seat Roman ...

... snow!  The hills are covered in calcium carbonate deposits formed over 14000 years.  The cliff wall is dotted with thermal pools and topped off with amazing ruins from the Roman, Greek, and Byzantine eras.  All Empires that once ...

... tour groups were probably still visiting Hierapolis!  Grnnn! Outside the hotel’s grounds, a few people were enjoying the thermal pools where hot steam came out of them.  No thanks!  But lovely pictures were taken! Looking around ...

... your destination. We finally arrived at the station and took a mini bus to the small town where we could enter and head to the thermal pools. We arrived and I smiled at the landscape. Finally. Then we walked up to pay our entrance fee and I was given a ...

... would normally book into! Treated ourselves on arrival to a Foot bath with Doctor fish for 10 mins and then into the 58 deg thermal pools, just so full of minerals we thought we would be 10 years younger after soaking.However we then settled for a great ...

... about.  It dıdnt disappoint!  You can check out my photos on facebook although they don't do it any justice. Behind the thermal pools you can see the ancient Roman ruıns of Hierapolis - the theatre and the church of St Phılıpe.  The ...

... natural wonders of the world. It is a unique geological formation formed over 14.000 years. The spring water at Pamukkale has therapeutic qualities and since antiquity has been said to cure rheumatism, kidney and heart diseases. ...

... temperatures along the crack.  Water escapes to the earth's surface along the crack making the thermal pools.  We visited the thermal source at Pamukkale where the temperature of the water at the surface is 36°C.  The water has ...

... ; A very.long.day. of driving.  When we arrived, we discovered that we had been upgraded to the Pam Thermal Hotel.  Thermal pools and mudbath.  I made full use of the mud bath/hotsprings in the evening.  There really is nothing like ...