Blogs from Pamukkale, Aegean, Turkey, Middle East - page 2

A journey of 120 miles, up into & over the Taurus mountains. Again, vast expanses of mountains, scrub & trees with the road (a dual carriageway blasted through the mountains) seemingly going on forever. We detoured slightly & stopped off at yet another ancient city, Kibyre. The theatre here is 200 metres long, help 10,000 people who could watch athletics, chariot racing & Russel Crowe look alikes. Then, everything went green once we neared the mountain tops – the change was so dramatic. Very little surface water but obviously lots of springs – it's from here that the Turks are to supply water to Cyprus via an undersea pipeline. As we approached Pamukkale you could see the vast expanse of white...the famous world heritage site. We couldn't find the site but there was another right opposite ... read more

To walk in the water from the Pamukkale hot spring is a sweet luxury The first half of this trip I, Ake, spent visiting various ancient sites in the southeast of Turkey. But there was one more thing I wanted to see while being in this part of Turkey and that was Pamukkale. Pamukkale is a place I bypassed when I travelled in Turkey many years ago. Since then I have been thinking about going there many times but haven't found time to until now. It took me twenty years of planning to make it to Pamukkale but finally I have. You might argue that Pamukkale is two sites, not one. The famous one of these two being Pamukkale with its white terraces. The other site, being the less famous one, is Hierapolis which is the ... read more

We went to the ruins of an ancient Roman city, that are right by the white cliffs. We saw the old grave yard and took zombie pictures. Then we saw the grand market and the really different bathroom, where you went was side by side. I couldn't imagine having to use the bathroom with so many people around. We continued on looking at the architecture and seeing old Roman baths and concert halls. We then saw the calcium pools and the ruins of the old Apollo temple now a pool to soak in, Elissa, Rachel and me went in for awhile. After the swim, we had lunch and ice-cream. Then we walked down the calcium pools, they were really cool and felt weird on your feet at places because the calcium goes between your toes. The ... read more

The second day in Pamukkale, I decided to sleep in - the first time I've been able to truly relax on my little trip. I got some breakfast around 8:30 - cucumbers, bread with butter, olives, and cheese with pomegranate juice - before checking out at 9:30. I left my bags at the hotel and walked up to Pamukkale once again. Going up this morning was so much more refreshing - it was cool and there were hardly any tourists walking. I was able to take my time to get some good photos and enjoy this beautiful natural creation. Well, as natural as it can be. I love the fact that tourists are allowed to visit and thoroughly enjoy these areas, but sometimes you worry about the traffic destroying nature. The park here has a good ... read more

Rano sok,budim ma steward aby som a pripravil na vysadok. Kuknem na hodiny v buse, 4/00. Berem batoh, vystupujem do zimy,steward ma naviguje do minibusu, konecne zas v teple, chvilu cakame na dalsi bus ,z ktoreho doberame posadku. Vyrazame minibusom z Denizli do dedinky Pamukkale. Kontrolujem cas,podla mojich hodiniek je uz 5/00. Mi to bolo hned divne,ze by sme boli o hodinu skorej v denizli. Minibus nas vyhadzuje v spriaznenom hoteli artemis youruk. Vacsina ludi tu ma aj rezervacie. Ja cakam lobby kym vyde slnko a planujem ist na prieskum ubytiek. Prichadza chlapik,ponuka mi dorm za 20l,podla hostelworldu tu ma stat 22l, podla wikitravel 21l,tak to berem. V istanbule stoji dorm 10euro (tam kde som spal ale my sme mali izbu pre 4, cena neviem, sestra zaplatila,ze nech spim konecne v poradnom ubytku),ostatny ludia co som ... read more