just got off the bus from antalya
and dan nisly trying to take a bus now to palma cali which is number 176. we're on a mini bus
it's like a 20-minute drive there a taxi they said was 110 lira but this is only 10.
it is what right after 6 30 a.m yes let's walk and hope a taxi comes
all right so there are three different entrances here to palmokale the one was right next to our
hotel but that one and the north one open at 8 am and the south one is the only one that opens at 6
30 a.m we're just walking there now there's already been like maybe four
big tourist bus drove past me i'm pretty much at the entrance but i'm worried there's gonna
be so many groups of tourists already so many people already right after seven a.m it's crazy
yay i made it in before all the people um it was 110 lira and this is the south entrance
me 30 a.m bikini photo shoot so there's actually a ton of history here in palma cali as well
um but no one talks about that because everyone's just stuck on the pools so this
here says a medieval fortress the largest monument at hieropolis dating back to the middle ages like
it is totally natural the water that made this has like tons of calcium in it and the
calcium came out and hardened into this so it was getting destroyed by tourists but now as of 1988
it's an unesco world heritage site so these parts of it are roped off that people can't destroy it
so for example here it says please don't enter the travertines in this area
so i guess here technically it's like all roped off
for them to try and like heal and they'll fix themselves from all the tourism that killed them
there are a ton more pools here i think i'm on the far side now um but as well you can't enter here
these are all roped off so there's only one place so far you could enter which
is where all the people were you can see here too it just looks like really
ugly and destroyed so this part's also blocked off you're not allowed to go there so hopefully
if they keep it blocked off long enough it'll turn back into like the really cool white
like the rest of it and it's out there like away from the edge it's really not that bad
but yeah sad to see it like this the cat is drinking the water
maybe all the calcium carbonate is why it's the same color as the rocks
so the cleopatra pool is inside the palmicali complex
you can walk in and look at it for free but if you want to go swimming it's another hundred lira
i read some blog before we came that said to wear flip-flops because you have to carry your shoes
there's literally one tiny part where you have to take your shoes off and the rest of the time you
can be like out here hiking and stuff to go see the theater so don't wear flip-flops wear shoes
and all the white you can see right on there white white white so it's not too far of a walk up
it's only 9 30. there's so many people here now but we're going to the second entrance
by the hotel where carly's came in and you like can walk through the pools to get there
oh what that's weird oh it's so warm and it's not slippery at all yet
this is not soft at all it's literally hard and hot
this is crazy my feet hurt so bad
and there's so many people
finally found a squishy part that everyone keeps showing here it's squishy
but then here it's hard this is not at all
so many people
this one pool is empty and so many people so 9 30 a.m isn't too bad you can get like some pictures
there's a couple in here taking pictures and there's no other people
yeah so all of this is just like natural calcium carbonate which is crazy there's so much
hey i was worried about wearing a bikini and you do not need to be worried there are men
with nothing on and so we're almost back at the middle entrance which is the one literally across
the street from our hotel that opened at eight o'clock not 6 30. i would say just come here
at eight don't bother going to the other one it's not worth it i want to go there
and ride a boat oh but if you do come in entrance too you can't wear shoes so you have to
walk up this aka if you don't want to take your shoes off don't use entrance too chicken
you got carly skin on a boat with me
right
it was 20 lira for 10 minutes on this little swan boat
i don't know i think it's fun are you having fun yeah yeah
our bus leaves promo kali tonight well at dinner at 10 30 to go back to istanbul
and we were up at 6 00 a.m i went to the park entrance that's two kilometers away
to enter at 6 30 because the other entrances only open at eight which is what he did
he came to this entrance with the pools at eight which is so much better yeah this
like the entrance with the pools is nice and the entrance i went to was like where all the buses go
so i didn't even know the pools were that cool until we left
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