Experience PAMUKKALE Ancient Pools | Turkey Travel Guide

Experience PAMUKKALE Ancient Pools | Turkey Travel Guide

Turkey a country known for its interesting history Rich mix of cultures incredible food friendly people and out of this world natural Sites recently we spent 2 weeks exploring some of the best Turkish destinations after enjoying the vibrant city of isul and the Magical region of capadia we headed to pukal another place that we had dreamt of visiting one day this natural and historical site is located in southwestern turkey nowadays

PUK which means cotton Castle in Turkish is a famous touristic spot where you can admire the Unique travel time pools and visit the ancient ruins of hierapolis subscribe to our channel to join us in our adventures in this third episode of our turkey air travel series we will share

With you our itinerary and travel tips to experience PUK in the best possible Way there are no direct flights from kokia to pamuk so we chose the Night Bus as the most straightforward option to do this journey we bought our tickets in advance on The Fakes boss website that Partners in turkey with a company Camille the bus was clean but not

Very spacious people were quiet so we slept most of the time and barely noticed the tiring trip after almost 10 hours we reached Denis Lee bus station once there you can get one of the minivans that bring tourist to pukal or rent a car like we did we chose

Enterprise this time for the great reviews here plus the possibility of dropping the car in any of their numerous offices something essential to us as we were going to continue the trip through the Turkish Riviera just a 15minute drive and we were in our hotel in pukal in low season

You can get very affordable prices for nice hotels in the town next to the site After our early check-in we were very hungry so we went to a nearby cafe to eat another yummy Turkish Breakfast this south or Lower Gate of the site was just a 5 m minutes walk from our hotel the entrance free was included in the turkey museum pass that we bought in Istanbul before entering into the cavine you have to remove your shoes this is to avoid erosion and also making it dirty and also it’s slippery I’m ready this place almost looks fake look at that ball woo oh my gosh wo oh it’s so nice on the feet is slippery um no not

Really it looks fake you know it looks like those when you go inside an expensive hotel and they have this big circle thing and there’s water coming down it looks like that but this is natural W it’s not really warm but it’s good for the temperature at the moment

Because the sun heat is very warm it has like a sand but I don’t know if it’s a sand it almost feels like a wet flower it’s very soft wo a it’s not better no look there are Natural Pools behind you wow though there are other entrances at

The top of the site we highly recommend the one we used to immerse yourself in the travertines immediately this surreal landscape has been created due to the flowing of thermal spring water which leaves behind a calcium carbonate mineral that eventually crystallizes forming this white travetine Rocks in a sunny day it seems that you really entering another world one made of hard cotton or of snow that doesn’t melt some of the hot springs can be accessed by the visitors and you can feel the water getting warmer the higher you hike temperatures can even reach from 35 to

100° just please don’t climb to the upper Terraces as the authorities are trying to recover the best Splendor of these Natural Pools after some Decades of being Overused We heard some people complaining about many pools not having water but we learned that keeping them with water will darken its collar so they need to get wet and dry constantly to maintain their Pure White Brightness this natural wonder of the world needs a proper balance to shine at its Best this place is surreal it’s like another world that is so so warm now we are sweating a lot oh almost melting but it’s really worth it I cannot imagine how hot this place can be during summer cuz it’s already almost November the ancient archaeological site

Of heropolis is located on top of the travertine pools this city was built here by the Greeks in the 2nd Century mainly as a thermal spa and Healing Center due to the numerous hot springs in the area nowadays the Petra’s antique pool still allows us to enjoy the benefits of this therapeutic

Waters It is believed that the famous Egyptian queen loved to swim in this pool under the Temple of Apollo whose Fallen columns and stones are now inside the water the access to the pool is not included in the main ticket and it requires an extra 200 L fee going inside All It’s perfect it’s actually not too warm not cold perfect Mark Anthony it’s really good it’s a little bit warm perfect temperature it’s totally worth it if you can hear it’s a different experience and those are Roman colums incredible there are other interesting ruins in this UNESCO world heritage site the

Plutonian the Temple of Hades god of the underworld is probably the most intriguing construction under it we can admire the entrance to the cave once considered the Gate of Hell from which lethal fumes of carbon dioxide still come out until this day these toxic gases were used in

Rituals to sacrifice animals to the God don’t miss the Roman Theater built in the 2nd Century ad by order of the emperor hadrien its seating sections could accommodate almost 15,000 Spectators this building has been magnificant restored in recent years and it’s absolutely impressive heropolis is a huge site and we didn’t have enough time to visit all its ancient

Buildings Sunset was approaching and we didn’t want to miss it chano found the travertine pools with the best Reflections to use as mirrors for the sky it was a little bit overcast but we had beautiful colors at the end Heart with wor though we couldn’t bring our drone to Turkey this story Blocks videos are great to show you pamuk from the Sky so many years to Many Tears on your face We will never forget our day in this astonishing Place of the Darkness of it all seem On our way to the restaurant we had to stop to try this pomegranate juice enjoying much thank you so much you I love it oo so R and only 50 L it’s usually three times that price and look all Fresh we chose this local place for dinner and the food was super tasty there was only one lady cooking washing the dishes and serving but there is nothing like real mom’s food quality do you like it I love it this is really like Mom’s highly recommend it This time we didn’t wake up for Sunrise as we were extremely tired after the long night bus ride plus the whole day visiting pamuk but if you want to do a balloon ride for only €50 per PR they also fly over Here that ends our third episode of our turkey a travel series I hope you enjoyed this video please subscribe to our channel to support us and to follow our adventures don’t miss our next episodes because we will show you more breathtaking and wonderful places in Turkey next stops the archaeological

Site of Ephesus the Charming town of singer and the interesting city of sjuk thank you so much for joining us and please don’t forget to like this video until next time keep exploring rain or shine

Last October, we traveled around Turkey for 16 days. After visiting Istanbul and Cappadocia, we headed to Pamukkale, the Turkish “Cotton Castle” famous for its white travertine pools and the ancient ruins of Hierapolis.

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00:00 Intro
01:23 Transport Cappadocia to Pamukkale
02:19 Hotel Pamukkale & Breakfast
02:50 Travertines of Pamukkale
07:10 Hierapolis & Cleopatra’s Antique Pool
09:05 Ploutonion & Roman Theater
10:13 Sunset
11:27 Pomegranate Juice & Dinner
12:32 Sunrise
12:57 Outro