🇹🇷 Famous Pamukkale in Turkey: Is It Worth Visiting?
Pamukkale, meaning “cotton castle” in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing of thermal spring water. The ancient Greek city of Hierapolis was built on top of the travertine formation which is in total about 2,700 metres (8,860 ft) long, 600 m (1,970 ft) wide and 160 m (525 ft) high. It can be seen from the hills on the opposite side of the valley in the town of Denizli, 20 km away. This area has been drawing visitors to its thermal springs since the time of classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcite-rich springs. Dripping slowly down the mountainside, mineral-rich waters collect in and cascade down the mineral terraces, into pools below.
Pamukkale was added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 along with Hierapolis.
This is a very popular destination and the tour will definitely be offered to you if you come to Turkey. Take this virtual tour and decide if it’s worth visiting, bearing in mind that it takes about 7 hour return bus trip from Bodrum and about 10 hours from Antalya.
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00:00 – Intro
00:21 – Pamukkale’s terraces
17:00 – Hierapolis Museum
26:12 – Cleopatra Antique Pool
34:52 – Hierapolis Roman Theater
2 Comments
Very interesting and informative😀
I have been living in Denizli for 22 years. But I visited this beautiful place four times