Ozturk White Hill Hotel Pamukkale

Excited for the first official 'site seeing' day in Turkey: a day trip to Pamukkale and Hierapolis.

Able to arrange this trip through our hostel. So far we've only camped one night in Turkey! Pensions are very affordable and come with amazing breakfasts. Hard to pass up over sitting in the dark in a damp tent all night. Also, this way ...

(For Raphaella, welcome to the world).....
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"Where'a you frahm?

"Tchermany, Holland, Oshtraylia?"

The shiny silver suits speak. Boned black wingtip shoes. Starched white shirts casually open-necked, framing well-shaven jaws beneath neatly coiffured, side-combed fringes.

The little army of clone-uni...

We rose somewhat late to a broken hot water system and no showers. We got ready and headed back up to the top of the cliffs to explore the ruins of Hieropolis, a city built to take advantage of the Pamukkale springs. We also got some great views of the travertines, or calcified waterfalls.

Hieropolis was the least interesting ruined cit...

So apparently I've gone insane.

After a quick seat inspection by Jo and bidding farewell to Jo and Sherry, Rachel and I set out in our rental car for 4 days of driving around the Turkish countryside. Apart from a quixotic mission for the nearest Shell station, our exodus from Istanbul proper was uneventful. However, you have to drive so...

By Shukhrat Khakimov
In Turkey, said: "Who has not seen Pamukkale, Turkey is not seen." Pamukkale - outlandish natural phenomenon Ierapolisa. The name "Pamukkale" is translated from Turkish means "Cotton Castle" which is surprisingly consistent with the unusual and truly here, exotic natural landscapes. The spa is known since ancient times ...

Yo! The last few days has been epic, I've seen more ancıent thıngs than goodess knows what and only payed for 2! Got here yesterday evening and ended up sharing a room with a lovely New Zealander called Charlie and we ended up hanging out wıth Phıllıp and Veronica and an American chap called Alex (I think, nams is a real...

I tried to leave early today, but had a bad start! First when I checked out, the guy didnt have any change and I had to wait. He managed to find change but gave me so many coins and I got so busy counting them and putting them in my poor wallet that I left 20 lira on the counter and left. Luckıly, I stopped at McDonalds for breakfast (to spare m...

This was incredible... On our way to Pamukkale, we met a kind English couple on our bus ride to Pamukkale, Bea and John. Bea was actually Turkish and had a hotel booked for them already. Offered for us to share their free ride to the hotel which sounded just like the one we had so enjoyed in Fethiye. We thanked them with a smile and discussed a ...

We had the same old brekky downstairs in the open courtyard (tomatoes & cucumber and loads of bread) then packed our bags and put them in the reception area. There was no sign of our driver so the hotel man kindly offered to drive us up to the entrance of Hieropolis. He was driving like a lunatic and we were holding onto anything we could! W...

November 8, 2007 Pamukkale, Turkey People have told us that there are more Greek ruins in Turkey than in Greece itself. We don't know if this is true but we saw more ruins again today. This morning our tour takes us to Pamukkale where we see the ruins of Hierapolis and the amazing travertines called the Cotton Castle. Hierapolis was a sacred cit...