Pamukkale Travel Blogs | Travelogues | Travel Journals

DAY THREE of the Beaches & Ruins Road Trip: PAMUKKALE.  Hallelujah, we managed to beat most of the tour buses to Pamukkale! We arrived at the gate just before the opening time of 8am and it was relatively quiet. We parked at the north gate (many buses were parked at the south gate) and walked in to the main event… the travertine terraces. You may have seen photos of this incredible place -- bright white formations protruding and “dripping” from the mountainside, filled with shi...

A tour of Turkey: one of my best travel with hundreds of pictures!

·         “Cotton castle” -    White rock cataracts created by hot spring rich in calcareous salts   ·         Ancient City of Hieropolis

The next day we went to Parmukkale however no one had told me that the place looks nothing like it’s advertisement photos.   The photos of course are all from the 80’s before tourism and poor environmental managemanet destroyed this once-beautiful location. Over development has lowered the water table and caused these wonderful cascading white limestone pools to stop forming. As a result what now exists is some dirty, grey lumps of crap almost devoid of any decent water. It was sti...

Pamukkale - u must see it! It`s amazing

Two hours later near sunset, we arrived at Pamukkale and stayed until after sunset. I didn't really have time to visit the ruins there called Hierapolis, it had a large theater too. The city with the thermal springs was a popular spa resort. It also had one of the largest ancient graveyard in Anatolia, with more than 1200 toms from Roman, Hellenistic and early Christian periods. I only walked around the travertine terraces. One person from our group had walked all the way down the terraces a...

I spent two weeks in Turkey with Henri. Henri's parents have a holiday apartment in Alanya, so we stayed there most of the time and made some trips around.

  Pamukkale means “cotton-castle” in Turkish and this is an apt description as when one approaches the cliff-face where the terraces of the cascading waters are found they are pure white in colour and resemble huge tufts of cotton that have been spread over the cliff. We drove up to the top of the cliff where the archaeological site of Hierapolis is. Hierapolis was an ancient Phrygian city in southwestern Turkey, about 10 km north of the ruins of Laodicea. Situated on the Coruh R...

One day trip for Turkish thermal waters

Yesterday, we did a day trip to Hierapolis/Pamukkale. The trip was 3 hours each way and it was a very long day especially with it being so hot outside. Our tour guide said she was exhausted at the end of the day because of all the talking she did. However, she spoke for a half hour at the very most for the entire day. We started to walk through the Necropolis of Hıerapolis and five minutes later she said lets take the mini domus (small bus) for 2 turkish lira each because it's hot outside. T...

Graduating in May I headed to the Caribbean, then to Spain and Denmark, then the southern US, then Greece, followed by Turkey and Cyprus, then Greece again, and finally the central US.

Travelling from Cairo to Venice, through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Italy.

My journey through history...Turkey from May 22 - June 9, 2008, where a piece of my heart and soul will always remain.. (and a piece of my hair)

An amazing 7-week vacation to multiple destinations: London, Italy, Greece, Turkey. The trip of a lifetime, and I already can't wait to go back!

Trips 2003-2008 years Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus, Poland, France, England, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania