Pamukkale in Turkey. Barefoot visit to the dazzling white terraces and Roman ruins of Hierapolis.

Pamukkale in Turkey. Barefoot visit to the dazzling white terraces and Roman ruins of Hierapolis.

Just coming up to the ticket office now. It’s about uh4 8 in the morning. Reasonably cool. I’d say about 18° for a guess. And We’re going to have a quick whiz up this white hill and see if we can get to the amphitheater as well and get back in time for the mini bus back down to the auto park to catch my flicks bus back down to Antana. I think I saw yesterday it cost30 to enter. Uh 30 not allowed. Uh you must pay with Turkish money only. Well, we’re in. The sign says €30. The ticket says €30, but euros not accepted. Come on, sort it out. You’re better than that. Right. This is more like it. Hardly anybody about. I’m glad I didn’t try to come up here yesterday. I’m glad I didn’t try and come up here yesterday afternoon. That would have been so hot. I was exhausted really to be honest. Having no breakfast, no lunch. Bit much for the old geyser. Old geyser found it going a bit tough yesterday. But I think this was the right call coming up here in the morning. Okay, the first thing to do is not fall in the river to start with. be good, wouldn’t it? I like that. That’s nice. Caution red floor. I guess it has to go around this edge here. Yes. Pardon? No. Okay. You have to do what uh the rules are. And the rules are no shoes. And no socks either. Here we go. Walking. walking barefooted. I don’t know what it’s like to walk on this. If I’m honest, I’m not properly understanding what he’s going on about with the no shoes. Something about the left side. Uh, nice and bright up here. I’ll say that. It’s a bit rough underfoot. [Music] I’m just going to stand in the shade a minute or two. and and get an feel for what’s going on here. Oh boy. Is this what it’s all about? Amari 8:30 in the morning with no shoes on. Everyone’s a little bit white. Everything’s a little bit rough under foot. Ow, if I may say so. Ow. Jeez. Walking on grabby nails up here. This is smooth. Come on. What else would you do today? What we got here? A flat bit. Yeah, it would have been a disaster to come up here yesterday when the temperature was 40°. Right, let’s see if we can go up the high slope now. Jeez, no wonder those guys going across the Antarctic had to wear sunglasses all the time. I mean, eventually you’d be seeing absolutely nothing up here. So white. Jeez. If you like white places, this is going to be the sort of thing you’re going to love. I’m glad I’m not doing it with 15 coach loads of shouting tourists. This is lovely. [Applause] Great stuff. Hold on. I think we’ve got some Instagrammers at it here. All the way up. Today I hope [Applause] If you put on, you could you could actually fall over and do yourself a nasty up here. Oh, then we have to put that Okay, we are from South Korea and I’m daughter and she’s my mother. Oh, are you having a nice time? Yes, it’s fantastic. Where else have you been in Turkey? We’ve been in Istanbul. Istanbul and Kapador Gor. Yeah. And I love the way these shapes are formed by the intensity of the water. I mean, these are the same patterns that are way down below in 8 and 10t pools. I tell you what, these reaches are a bit sore on your feet. If you find a smooth bit, you’ve got to stand on it. Nearly at the top now. Got past the bikini types. Going to have a look at the sort of wedding cake or icebergs or whatever they call it. A bit of a pinch point here. Sorry. It’s lovely to get the trainers back on. That surface was as rocky as Brighton Beach. [Music] [Music] [Applause] seem to be surrounded by tractors. Modern day tractors, right, I’m working my way around to the temple of Apollo on this fantastic site, a lot of which is fenced off, but there we are. They don’t want 5 million tourists trampling everything every single day of the week. I get that. What a fantastic big site this is. Frontier Street. Wow. And on this side you have the sanctuary of Apollo behind the fence. That is the matriion of St. Phillip. Some good old flag stones in those days. I wonder what you’d find if you went over this with a metal detector. The security guy’s coming around in his bubble car. Pretty steep on the way up here. Obviously, we will be coming to the back of the grand stands when we get to the top. 9:30 in the morning. Absolutely scorchio. But what a great thing to do when you’ve got a few days off. these seats rake at a really steep angle here. If uh the crowd started jumping up and down and waving their arms, I can’t help thinking your face. They would there would be uh occasionally a bit of a sort of stumble forwards. [Music] Apparently, this uh theater is uh used for productions, which is why there’s probably so many flood lights down there. And uh what a great place it would be. This is such a massive site here. A complete ruined city. Earthquakes cause of most of the damage. It’s interesting to think that the early photographers who came up here had rolls of Kodak film probably had black and white in those days. Then we got color film. Then we’ve got fast motor wine cameras. And then we’ve got digital. And then we got mobile phones. And then we got this gizmo that I’ve got in my hand here. An Osmo Pocket 3. This must be one of the most photographed places on the planet, I should think. Coming down the hillside. A lot easier than going up. And I’m heading for the trees in the distance, which I think will be the way out. We’ll cut through this little alleyway here. I think it’s about the first bit of litter I’ve seen on this site. Pretty little flowers. Some kind of sweet pea things. Massive paving slabs. What I have noticed in looking at some of these uh ancient sites in Turkey is what I’ve realized is that an archaeological site like this is always still under investigation and it’s also under restoration as well. At the same time, they don’t just throw a rope around it and take the money off the tourists. They actually um carry on finding out stuff and they carry on restoring stuff to give people a better idea of what might have been here earlier. And this is obviously a water channel or conduit of some description. And here’s another one. Now, you see, if I was being guided, somebody would tell me what this is. But I don’t mind taking a wild guess that it was a conduit or water channel of some description. It looks quite flat, but it’s not. Now whether or not that’s to do with earthquakes have cracked it and the massive slab of rock has um separated and that’s why the uh levels are not absolutely correct. Well, thanks again for watching. That’s going to be the end of my video on a trip to Pameali. What a fantastic place to come to. Uh if you’d like to subscribe to my channel, that would be a good thank you. You’ll be able to see what else I get up to in my oneway adventures around Turkey. Thanks again for watching.

Join me on a barefoot journey through one of Turkey’s most stunning natural wonders – the dazzling white travertine terraces of Pamukkale, formed over centuries by mineral-rich thermal waters. I also explore the nearby ancient Roman city of Hierapolis, with its impressive ruins and theatre.