Spring Break at Pamukkale

You may not realize this, but Turkey has a ton of UNESCO World Heritage sites.  One of the sites is Hierapolis-Pamukkale which is one of the places that Adam and I went to during our time at Izmir.  Above you can see a picture of some of the round burial mounds, the only round (sort of Norse looking to me) tombs that we have seen in this country.

Below, you can see some of the Greek inscriptions that are all over the bits and pieces that are about.  There were a million little wild flowers in bloom at the beginning of April.  I would recommend this as a good time of year to go here.

Adam and I entered from the back entrance, the entrance furthest from the mineral deposit, so we had about a mile, maybe a bit more, of a hike to the East edge of the park.

Here is Adam checking out one of the bits and pieces, and below you can see us with  some of Hierapolis behind us.

This is a bit of the ancient plumbing.  It has a slight down slope and was a mini aqueduct of  some kind.  I maybe had the warm waters from the mineral springs running through it.

This is Pamukkale, "The Cotton Palace".  The white stuff may look like cotton, or snow, but it is really mineral deposits from the hot water that springs from below ground.

Here we are with some of the falls behind us.

 Look at the trees over Adam's shoulder.  You can see how far that is in a few pictures.

The trees in the background was about where Adam and I were standing a few images above.  I am not quite level with the trees from the previous image when I was taking this picture.

The site is protected and you can only access a bit of it.  Walking down the falls is not all that easy.  The water starts out warm and cools as you get further down.  It's not soft to walk on, but is kind of grippy in places where their is good water flow, and slippery where the water is more stagnant.