Aspawa Pension Hotel Pamukkale

... bus takes me south and east, to Pamukkale, translated as cotton castle.<br><br>A small village lies at the bottom of a brilliantine white cliffside, beneath azure skies.<br><br>Stroll up the path and wander into a cliff of ice white, calcium stalagmites, stalactites and travertines, thousands of years of mineral deposits from springs bubbling up from the deep and dripping down the cliffside. <br><br>The Romans had long identified the site as a spa town, and built the resort of ...

... www.google.com that everyone on earth uses for searching everything. I mean, how many products in the world are as ubiquitous at all levels of society without any advertising? I've seen 30-second spots for all kinds of products that you wouldn't think really warrant them, from attorneys to America, from plastic to pork, but never for Google. Can you think of any other brand that pulls such a thing off? Goldie pointed out that GS has comparable brand ...

... untreated water. <br><br>Thankfully the bus picked us up on time and we napped all three hours to Selcuk. The unexciting day was contrasted with a more then exciting night. The night started with a couple of beers and turned into a hat party, pool party and three am hammock party. I was the bar assistant at one point (the hostel owner was very friendly) and managed to pass a few beers off to our friends. Allison and I collapsed into bed exhausted around four in the morning.

... tourist with money. We finally found a small family place that serves Pide and sells bottles of wine at their market next door. Pide excellent, wine not so great. Get me on the first bus in the morning&#8230;. <br><br>I do want to say, it probably would have been completely different experience if it were warmer and we could have enjoyed both sites. I ...

... was crucified. Beyond are tombs and sarcophagi scattered, what seems like forever, across the hills. Then down to the arena area where the gladiators fought. The ruins went on forever. It was far bigger than we had expected. Along the main street there is a latrine. Not much to see of the remains, but this is the first latrine that we have come across in all the ruins we have seen. There were always drain ditches or gullies and lots of aquaducts. We did go back to ...

... These are great!! They are not sectioned off at all so you can wandered through all the ruins and even climb on them if you want. I felt like a little kid walking around and on the ruins. These ruins are about 3km long (i think) and would have been a huge city at the time. There are in the process of restoring but you could walk down a main street as it would have been back in the roman times and they had restored the theatre ...

... made pasta. We left early (well 10am) the next day and headed to Dalyan, to look at nearby Kaunos and the beach. The Tombs carved into the rock wall were the best ones we have seen, and we had a full English breakfast (yes, I know but I haven't had bacon for months!) and looked at the tombs. The beach was a 12km drive away through nice country side. The beach hasn't been developed like everything else in this region as it is one of the last nesting ...

... where i caught my bus. pammaluke, which means Cotton Castle, is a world heritage site in western anatolia. the pammaluke are calcuim deposits on the side of a mountain from mineral waters flowing down. the area became a roman health resort and apparently became commercially important and had jewish and christian communities. tomorrow i'll have a tour of all the sites.

... out laughing in front of them. But seriously if you do that then what do you expect! Ý also made a Canadian ladies day yesterday and had a photo with her. Her friend was trying to get her to pose and she wouldn't. So Ý put my arm around the lady and said Ýd be in the photo. This way she couldn't refuse! Good times! The Pension we stayed in last night rocked. Ýt ...

... We felt spoiled. The train ticket vendor sold us a first class cabin (instead of our intended umpteenth class). Notably, it was so cheap that we didn't even notice at the time. We did notice, however, after we arrived at the station and wondered why we were being directed to such a groovy little private cabin wýth bar fridge, sink and bench. Train travel in Turkey is fantastic. Odd really, as we keep hearing from tourists and ...