Blogs from Pamukkale, Aegean, Turkey, Middle East - page 7

Hello!! First of all, I really want to thank everyone for all the messages and comments, they're really nice to get. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to read these blogs and provide me with feedback. Thanks! So last Tuesday night I started off for Pamukkale, which is a very small town about 7 hours away from here. So small in fact that buses don't even go there. You take a bus to Denizli, the nearest city and from there you take a dolmuş (small bus type transportation) to Pamukkale. Well, I really didn't get much sleep on the bus, so I was dead tired when I arrived in Denizli. Plus, my bus was almost an hour early, so instead of getting in at 7:00 am I was there at 6:15. Sounds great, but the ... read more

We slept as long as we could get away with and left a stupidly small amount of time to wake, pack and get downstairs for breakfast at ten. Breakfast was good again. It never ceases to amaze me how much food Rob can put away first thing in the morning, especially jam and bread. We got the bill and walked into town to post a first batch of postcards and to withdraw money for bills etc. We had been told that whilst the red spring was definitely worth seeing we wouldn't want more than twenty minutes there. Ordinarily we wouldn't waste our time, but it was thundery and getting caught in storms on the travertines didn't sound that appealing, so we opted for the spring. We caught a dolmus there no problem, it was cheap and ... read more

Rob went to breakfast whilst I laid in. When he got back we packed our bags which took a while because we were surprisingly spread out considering how few things we have. We stopped at a shop owned by a friend of Jimmy's. After we bought some postcards we chatted to her for a while about traveling. I told her how I'd love to go to Iran and she listed a load of other places to go instead, all of which we had already been. Once listing all these places to visit she told us we should just go home. We both felt rather well traveled. Until last night we had believed that we have visited St John's basilica in Sirince, but an Aussie staying at Urkmez told us that the basilica ruins were actually in ... read more

Arrived in Kusadasi and didn't really have anywhere to stay.... So randomly hopped on a minibus from the Otogara.....and hopped off somewhere in the city.. Went online....found the address of a hotel and started walking....and DAMNIT! UPHILL...the slope was......horrible! Halfway through I got stopped by this other hotel person and just decided to go in.....WRONG CHOICE! No hot water...-__-" Anyways....not much around Kusadasi anyways...walked around and then stayed in for the night. Found the hotel I wanted to go, booked for the next night and signed up for the Pammukale tour.... This morning....got up very very early to checkout...checkin and hit for the tour to the cotton castle. Its a long ride but the minibus was alright. Got there and....... Well, I did expect it to be touristy and also not as beautiful.... but the pammukale ... read more

Denizlı is a smaller city (a little bigger than Tulsa) They are a major center for textiles. Nearby there is a very peculiar travertine rock formation and what was a once a major cıty from Helenıstıc tımes, claımed by rome 133 B.C. and destroyed by an earthquake 1st century A.D. Here ın Denizlı, we were ınvıted to the homes of some really frıendly folks who stuffed us wıth pastrıes, served us Turkısh Coffee and çay, read our fortunes, fed us dınner and offered theır homes for any future vısıts. The people here were great! Lots to tell when we get home! ... read more