Turkey - Hierapolis & Pamukkale

 

I've been away on our holiday to Turkey for two weeks, so I thought I'd share a few snaps of the historical sites, I dragged the family around. There are loads of photos, so don't feel like you have to look at them all.

I have split the post into 2, or you'd be here all day.

Hierapolis

Click the name, it'll take you to a Wikipedia page 

Pamukkale

Cotton Castle

What an amazing place this was, white everywhere you looked.

Pamukkale's terraces are made of travertine, a sedimentary rock deposited by mineral water from the hot springs.^[1] In this area, there are 17 hot springs with temperatures ranging from 35 °C (95 °F) to 100 °C (212 °F). The water that emerges from the spring is transported 320 metres (1,050 ft) to the head of the travertine terraces and deposits calcium carbonate on a section 60 to 70 metres (200 to 230 ft) long covering an expanse of 24 metres (79 ft) to 30 metres (98 ft). When the water, supersaturated with calcium carbonate, reaches the surface, carbon dioxide de-gasses from it, and calcium carbonate is deposited. Calcium carbonate is deposited by the water as a soft gel which eventually crystallizes into travertine.

Cleopatra pool

The water in the thermal pool is 36–57 °C, pH value is 5.8 and radon value is 1480 pCi/L. The spa water contains bicarbonate, sulphate and carbon dioxide, as well as iron and radioactive combination. The water in this spring is suitable for taking showers and drinking cures, 2430 MG/liter melt metal value.

The Bath, now the Museum

Medusa's head, to hopefully stop looters.....