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Pamukkale Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pamukkale, Turkey
The big brother of the GAB mound springs
Pamukkale is a place of hot springs and travertine terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing spring water with an ancient Greco-Roman and Byzantine city of Hierapolis built on top. Tourism is and has been a major industry. People have bathed in ...
Turkish Road Side Assistance
... decided against it as traffic was racing past the bus. Eventually we were on the road again and we arrived in Pamukkale about 5 pm. After checking in we headed up to the travertine pools and waded through the shallow pools to the ...
Baby Lamb Wool
... we also mention that gas is crazy expensive here? $150 for a tank and we were on our way. Surprisingly we reached with Pamukkale without incident until I had to parallel park the car. We didn't know how to put the car into reverse. ...
Impressive calcium carbonate and more ruins
Jeannie here. We spent another great spring day outdoors exploring the ruins of Hierapolis and the snowy white calcium carbonate formations. The approach was barefoot through the streams of cloudy, calcium-rich waters and past the ...
Hierapolis
Other than the amazing white calcium-formed pools, Pamukkale also offers humble Hierapolis. 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 ...
What is Pamukkale?
On the advice of a friend, we altered our itinerary at the last minute to go visit Pamukkale 200km east of Selcuk. This morning, after a fantastic Turkish breakfast at our pension we caught a direct bus to arrive at this unique World Heritage Site ...
Pamukkale: Cotton Candy Dreams
... foreign tourists want to be in Istanbul for new years, so most of the people visiting the site were Turks. Our hotel in Pamukkale was the exact opposite of the one in Selcuk. The owners were too delightful, the place spotless with central heating and ...
Lounging around Pamukkale
... is that you don't feel real "settled", unless you find a good place to sit and use a washroom. At Pamukkale, I just lounged around the awesome pools all day, it was like being in heaven during the midday heat with water flowing ...
Cotton Castle
... of the world ever since on a 48 foot sailboat (obviously he had a lot to say about the world) - we arrived in Pamukkale for a couple days of exploration before carrying on to Istanbul. While we mean uneventful in terms of no major situations to report, ...
PAMUKKALE, TRAVESTINE POOLS AND RUINS TURKEY
... having a lively time. The music and the way the men are dancing reminds me of something I might see in Greece instead of Turkey. I guess the countries are similar more than I thought.. Then up the hill to see it lit up at night. Very impressive. ...
Truck breakdown!
Not much to report today as it was simply a driving day from Oludeniz to Pamukkale. Away from the coast which was dissapointing after a great days swimming, but looking forward to seeing the calcium deposits! The only interesting part of the day was ...
Hieropolis is Here!
Leaving Izmir we headed east for Pamukkale (meaning cotton castle). Here we toured the ancient Greek and Roman hot springs at Hieropolis in present day Pamukkale. The city stretches between a colonnaded street, ...
Afrodisias
... to experience the site without distractions. The tour lasted for a couple of hours, then we were jetted back to our respective hostels. I was picked up at around 5pm, for my overnight bus to Goreme, which is located in Central Turkey (Cappadocia). ...
The Travertines & Hierapolis
I took a three-hour dolmus ride to Pamukkale, which is located in Turkey's Western Anatolia region. Upon arriving, I checked in at the Artemis Yoruk hotel. This was a real gem. I paid 10USD for one private room on the 4th floor overlooking the small town. ...
Here's to Hierapolis
... ... and boy did we ever luck out. After an awful day at Efes we could not have asked for a nicer day in Pamukkale! The sun was shining all day and the temperature has been just great after lots of cold and rain... The travertines may well ...
Mad world - 6 months in
Song for the first six months: Mad world - Gary Jules "All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no ...
Pamukkale
Another surreal and beautiful landscape. These pools really look like ice but they're not, they're just stone. I was able to explore them at night too which was like walking on the ...
Calcium carbonate beauty
... bus from Istanbul to pamukkale, 10 hrs. Hard to sleep, I'm exausted. Bus served sandwiches and soda. I make it to Pamukkale Travertines, a place where I thought I was looking at snow in the peak of summer. The spring water that runs through the ...
Day 273 - Paradise in Pamukkale
... in a wide flat swath of valley between two gently sloping hills of green, lay two distinct features that hardly anyone outside of Turkey knows about. One man made and one carved by the tireless finger of nature. The first are the ruins of a ...
Enjoying the Travertines and ruins of Hierapolis
... initially settle on the site, as the calcium rich water has unique healing qualities for skin related ailments. On arrival in Pamukkale village, I set about finding my hotel. I got lost once again, and then a nice young school girl saw my ...
Cotton Castle
... and we could have enjoyed both sites. I’m sure this place could be a highlight of one’s journey into this part of Turkey, so we just take our experience and chalk it up to the weather. We also learned that there are a couple other ...
Ephesus and Pamukkale
... its day. We get a group photo in front, as well as another in the theatre. After lunch we drive inland to see Pamukkale and its famous limestone pools that have earned the name "The Cotton Castle." Our first stop is Hierapolis, a ruined Roman city ...
Missing the key ingredient, H2O
... : After about a 3 hour drive from Izmir to Pamukkale we were so happy to finally see the sign stating that we were entering Pamukkale. This would be the last of our happiness in this town. This place is so well known and the postcard pictures ...
Ruins and Waterfalls
... you hit the top you can put your shoes back on and hit up Hierapolis. Most major tour sites require you to use a Turkey Certified guide ($$) but fortunately this site didn't, so Mustafa, our Imaginative guide that has been with us the whole way, was ...
Ich komme aus Kanada
... where or what it is you will probably recognize it from somewhere. The scene comes from an unique place in Turkey called Pamukkale. The calcium hardness in the water is naturally an astounding 494 parts per million. Over thousands of years this ...
Vanishing Tourist Attraction
I almost couldn't be bothered to write this entry because our tour was about a 3 out of 10. If you google Puummakale, a tourist attraction, you will probably find the most amazing photos of white calcium ponds filled with turquoise blue spring water ...
The sad travertines at Pamukkale
Arrived in the afternoon to our pension. Had a quick Gozlome, a turkish kind of pancake thing filled with spinich or white cheese or potatoe or your choice of combination ....mmm..(one of my favourite turkish foods) for lunch. Then went to check out the ...