Richmond Pamukkale Thermal-Spa

... bath was sold as being an ancient roman bath that originally had a roof supported with marble pillars - as a result of an earthquake, the pillars collapsed and are now sitting on the bottom of the bath... The sceptics within my tour group weren't convinced!!<br> <br>Outside of the bath, it was possibly to bathe on the terraces - though, partly because it is last in the summer and the spring are drying, alot of the ...

... fully articulate and illustrate my stance, but I'm sure I'm right (I foresee this last sentence sending shudders of deja vu down many Treasury veterans' spines).<br><br>I had basically this same argument with Glyn on whether American law, centered around its succinct Constitution, was fundamentally different from British law, distributed across the more sprawling body of common law. I didn't get any traction there either.<br><br>We finished Efes by ...

... I haven&#8217;t been eating for 11 days already. <br><br>Turkey , apparently, is one of the major places to grow pomegranates. They are everywhere and especially in the tea. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re out of season so we couldn&#8217;t have any and there were none to buy. I did have some complimentary pomegranate tea at the truck stop though. And Alicia was right. Even when the temperatures are soaring, eat like the locals do. Hot tea does the trick, as does spicy lamb in ...

I just fýgured we would send a quýck update. Everythýng ýs goýng great - we are ýn Pamukkale and now we wýll be travelýng to Fethýeye today for our gullet. Sorry for the short update but I only have 5 mýnutes (Cynthýa needed her facebook!) and my journal ýs about 10 pages long now. Jonathan

The day started off highly questionably: we hired a bus to go from Selcuk to Pammukalle- something our guidebook said didnt exist. It does exist, just not in a pleasant way. Hot smelly overpriced small bus for 3.5 hours, despite the signage for 'Big Bus, with Air Conditioned!' Luckily, our hotel had booked a room ahead for us, and so therefore our friendly host was at the bus station to actually pick us up! pamm. hierapolis t. dat. sho

... ar-far-gus as our tour leader calls them. The site was huge and took us most of the day to explore. We then went to the Pamukkale Termal Baths where we had a swim amongst sunken roman ruins which was very cool. It was a really good couple of days. After Pamukkale we headed towards Fetihye where we boarded our Gulet which is very nice and can't wait to take a dip in the water. Will write more when back on land.

... pools - still filled with water opened up before us. Unfortunately, a group of about 20 people were frollicking in them. (Mr. McPink-erson Golf Shirt included). We were waiting for this group to vacate the area and were feeling horribly embarrassed on behalf of all tourists when the official had blasted his whistle for about the 100th time and was now violently waving them in and out of the 'no-zone' area. They continued to take their sweet time, and ...

... Pamukkale It seems that through gross errors in over development is dying due to lack of water. It's such a shame because I was absolutely amazed by it. It's one of nature's most amazing creations on earth that I've seen. They're doing their best to fix their mistakes here, but they've really screwed up. People say that you just can't get a photo ...

... At around 4.30 I took another hike up to the travertines for a cheap foot spa and to watch the sun set. This time it seemed to be the Japanese's day out and they were there in their droves. However they were very well behaved and some were even nice enough to talk to me. There were also some Russians there whose 50 year old overweight women thought it was OK for them to walk around in their size DDD bras - quite a horrifying sight and I wish I got a photo ...

... to an inviting swim! We wandered around the small museum, which is inside the ruins of a massive Roman public bath complex. Its either been restored exceptionally well, or at least one of the huge vaulted rooms has remained largely intact over the centuries, as this is used to house the best of the statues and sarcophagi found on the site. Chris found the building even more interesting then the priceless artefacts it holds!! It was very hot up in the site and after we had wandered ...