Pamukkale

Small town situated in the Aegean region app. three hours way by car to the south-east from Izmir.I went there for Sunday trip (13. 8.) with my colleague from work, Onur, and other trainees: Anna from Austria, Christina from Greece and Dima from Russia.


First experience: as regards entrance fee foreign students are treated differently than Turkish ones that can enter for free. Anyway this small handicap didn´t discourage us. The average age of our group was 22 years but as you can noticed from pictures we behaved like small children playing in 30 centimetres deep swimming pools.




For “experts” in history the town used to be called Hierapolis. It was established during the second century BC by “Pergam” king, Eumen II.


The town is especially known for its therapeutical hot spring and travertine terraces. You can find there terraces of various shapes as a water-lily, shell or look like rice terrace on oriental engravings. According to this appearance Turkish called this place Pamukkale which means “Cotton castle”. Not every place are available for tourist because of protecting this beauty (if they are, you have to go there without shoes) but you can also visit the local thermal swimming pool.




Nowadays springs rise from the place where the centre of Hierapolis was situated. Still you can find ruins of this Roman city commemorating his previos glory and visited museum.