Pamukkale and Hieropolis





In Pamukkale, most visitors go for the calcium pools, like the picture:


They were very interesting, but not beautiful like the pictures of them in the brochure guide. Instead of crystal clear water and people lounging around in bikinis, we found murky water being diverted to form new pools because the older ones were eroded. We took our shoes off and got our feet wet in the steamy water. It was an interesting natural phenomenon that had been over visited and they are trying now to preserve it a bit to keep the tourists coming. But the real beauty of the area is Hieropolis.

We spent the day behind them exploring the ancient city of Hieropolis pretending we were
archaeologists.

Sara leaning against an ancient pillar.

Ethan pretending to reassemble the ruins.

The town was like a ghost town and we had an alright dinner at our pension. The touts were strong to get us into one pension over the other and the bus was actually stopped short of town because a man that gave us a flyer in the previous city had called a woman to tell her we were on that bus. We got angry and wouldnt even look at that pension. One night we had excellent Turkish pizza.