wow this is crazy this is not what I thought Pamukkale was all of the research we did on
Pamukkale all the things we read, never saw this
Look at this!
we have woken up in Pamukkale to the prettiest sunrise over the cotton castles gives new
meaning to Cotton castles it's like cotton candy sky you don't like that not good on
that reference I don't know what that means yeah oh it's like pink and stuff yeah oh God
it looks like I get that yeah yeah cotton candy Sky cotton candy castles rocks we woke
up this morning it was two degrees and now it's probably about five degrees and I'm in
shorts but there is a good reason because these thermal pools you can dip we weren't
gonna come all the way here and be wearing jeans and warm things like we at least want
to go up to our knees yeah that is also apparently obviously the thermal pools that everyone
knows about but there's also a bunch of archaeological sites that I hadn't heard of that we want
to check out as well also there's about 500 different opening times online we are confident
that it is eight o'clock in the winter which is where we are now fingers crossed I love
it already we're not even inside it looks like security people are just rocking up
still about 10 minutes but we have a cat to keep us warm all right we are the first ones
here so far and no one behind us no one in front of us I keep thinking there are because
there's like dark bits on the we have heard that there's a different entrance that
being places alone but it looks like we are I'm out of breath we bought the normal ticket
that just has the entrance into the cotton castle and the Only Rule we've got is take
your shoes off on the white stuff
oh it's freezing
h it's like oh it's like freezing cold Oh's my foots gonna fall off oh my God
okay yep they are not all warm maybe we're just complainers but no one ever mentioned
how cold these pools are far out it feels like sharp pain the cotton candy castles look
like someone has gotten like a jar of shaving cream and just released it everywhere like
it looks like a movie prop from the Grinch I don't know how to describe it you see the
photos but it looks different in real life in the water it's so slushy look at
so yesterday we drove all the way from Selcuk to pammukale which is about three hours and
when we got in we went for a walk just to look at the cotton candy castles and we were
looking up and being like why is everyone walking in a single file we don't understand
it looks like everyone's really pushed together surely it's not like that now it makes a lot
of sense there is this tiny river running through that is so warm my feet are defrosting
oh I'm so happy if you come in the winter no you only have to go up a couple of pools
worth and then there's a little stream get in the Stream thank me later it's warm we
are surround surrounded by hot air balloons right now and
I had no idea that there was hot air balloons here I only thought we were going to see them
in Cappadocia
it is crazy to me how different the texture is when it's at the bottom of the pool or
been dried out by the sun it's literally like sludgy Play-Doh when it's wet and then Rock
Solid when it's dry nuts so we read that the white is some sort of sediment and lime scale
reacting with the Sun not really sure about it but this is the most visited spot in Turkey
for tourists so it should be flooded it's a Saturday I guess coming in Winter has its
perks
we've been here for almost an hour and now we're seeing the first big tour groups get
here looks like they came from the top entrance and they're making their way down slowly looks
pretty busy we are getting nowhere fast today because it's so cold when you're out of the
warm stream water we walk for like two minutes maybe and then come sit down and warm up again
that's the entrance there we've been here for like an hour and walked what a couple
hundred meters okay it's nice though because each time you stop it's like a little foot
massage
here it's really hot and real look I have to engage my abs to keep my legs with me
thank you very much if you're here in Winter and you're a little bit chilly when you finish
coming up the top just grab a coffee sit on the edge it's such a nice way to just have
a little bit of time in the morning to dry your feet recoup this has been such a good
day already such a nice view
we heard that's called Cleopatra's pool as well because she swam there back in
the day but it costs 130 Lira to go in and we're in a bathers so lots of reasons to not
do it but just behind it is the thing that we're most excited for apart from the pumakali
pools another ancient theater like two in two days this theater looks like it's going
to be a bit more grand for the one we saw in Ephesus because that one was huge but the
actual stage was sort of rubble and like a bit old obviously but this one is still very
much intact and you can see two stories worth of prettiness all of the research we did on
Pamukkale all the things we read never saw this I just had no idea that Pamukkale was
anything other than the cotton castles I thought that was it there was like a one hit wonder
that's all you were coming to see when you came here in reality there is this entire
ancient city behind the cotton castles and it's huge it's massive and it's not fully
excavated at all it looks like they barely started to be honest really puts into perspective
how Grand all of the theater shows would have been back in the day just the backdrop I love
it did you just sit and look at that for ages
just completely alone amongst these ruins they're only found the 2011 boggles my mind
how much they would be hidden underneath these Hills like look at where we are
this city is huge we have come up to like the top of a mountain I'm pretty sure we're
surrounded by tombs but you can see the ancient theater all the cotton castles and then it
just keeps going and going it's crazy how did we not know this is here
wow this is crazy there's like a very partially uncovered theater or colosseum type thing
on that Hill and there's just no one around there's no signs I feel like we're walking
in the middle of nowhere it kind of feels like we're discovering stuff ourselves this
is not this is not what I thought Pamukkale was I've literally been hiking just on this
random Mountain for like half an hour walking through all of these ancient ruins by ourselves
if this is allowed
I can't get over it
sound like a
broken record but I cannot believe we're here by ourselves and that we didn't know about
this Pamukkale is so much more than just the cotton castles is underrated oh for sure all
this extra stuff at first we thought 200 Lira to get in was a bit much but all this extra
stuff that you get to kind of free roam around almost alone so worth the money so worth the
money if you come to Pamukkale and you don't explore this at least this Street's worth
of stuff you haven't done you haven't done it you need to come back wear shoes wear shoes
oh yeah thongs was a bad choice
so surprised at how much there is to do here other than the cotton castles Pamukkale has
been amazing and we thought it was going to be like a quick one hit wonder in and out
day we've been here for hours and hours and hours walking around and seeing all these
cool ancient sites.. end of Video