Tour Details;
You will be met at Harbour, Airport or at your Hotel in Izmir or Kusadasi. The guide will hold up a sign with your
name on it. We Leaving the colourful town of behind you will pass through the verdant countryside.
We will drive for 3 hours for Pamukkale (Hierapolis) to east of Kusadasi or 4 hours driving from Izmir to
Pamukkale, On the half way, have break for the needs.
You will arrive at North Gate of Pamukkale (Hierapolis). You will see the Necropolis (cemetery) of Hierapolis
which is one of the biggest ancient cemeteries in Anatolia with 1.200 graves, Roman Bath, Domitian Gate, and
the Main Street, Byzantium Gate. Then, you walk to the natural warm water terraces which were formed by
running warm water that contains calcium. The temperature of the water is about 35. You can see the gleaming
white travertine terraces of Pamukkale, located next to the ruins of Hierapolis. The extraordinary effect is
created when water from the hot springs loses carbon dioxide as it flows down the slopes, leaving deposits of
limestone. The layers of white calcium carbonate, built up in steps on the plateau, gave the site the name
Pamukkale (cotton castle).After the open buffed lunch Swimming in hot red thermal pools in the hotel. Then If
you like to swim in the Ancient Pool which is also called Cleopatra s Pool they charge extra entrance fee. The
Cleopatra Pool is warmed by hot springs and littered with underwater fragments of ancient marble columns.
Possibly associated with the Temple of Apollo, the pool provides today's visitors a rare opportunity to swim with
antiquities! During the Roman period, columned porticoes surrounded the pool; earthquakes toppled them into
the water where they lie today.
Afterwards, you drive back to Harbour, airport or your hotel in Kusadasi or Izmir.
