Pamukkale

Today, we slept in until 5:45am when the muezzin called for the first time. We turned around and woke up again around 7am, as some hot air balloons flew passed our hotel. It's almost worse as the Bavarian churches! So we got up and had breakfast...
Then we explore the site of Pamukkale with its impressive travertine terraces and pools. You can enter the park directly from the town center and then walk up on the limestone and through the pools. At the top, there were crazy amounts of tourists, mainly Russians. It was a little fun to watch their bikini photo shootings in the pools...
To avoid the crowds, we took a longer walk away from the pools but along these impressive white formations until we got to the ruins of Hierapolis. We really enjoyed it as we could well imagine how the ancient city looked like some 2000 years ago. We visited the old main Street with the bath buildings, the necropolis and the huge theatre and saw lots of lizards on the way.
Then we went back to the hotel, had some lunch and packed our bikes to continue our trip. On the way to Denizli, we stopped at Laodikeia, another ancient city. They are in the process of reconstructing it, so there's still lots of lose rocks and single columns lieing or standing around. Here, they had even 2 huge theaters and what must have been very beautiful houses in those years. As Laodikeia is located on a hill, you can even see the white Pamukkale terraces far away.
The last few kilometers into Denizli were a pain due to heavy traffic, so we were happy when we could have dinner in a small restaurant and meet our host Murat. He actually wanted to go out with us for having a trink and playing fussball, but after a day of seeing lot's of old stones we were too tired and fell asleep.Read more