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look at how beautiful this
is it looks like snow but it's not
it's um i think that's calcium and
minerals
so that is the main area where all the
tourists can go explore the thermal
baths
but this area back here this is an area
you can walk around and look at it
but you can't walk on the traverse
because they're
um trying to preserve it i believe plus
there is no more
of that blue water here anyway
but i mean it's still beautiful you get
a gorgeous view
overlooking the city
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so yeah right now it's um 6 30
about an hour and a half before sunset
and there's still some people out there
but if you go way at the end it looks
like there's less people so
everybody's gonna gather it up front
here but the further down you go there's
less and less people so if you want good
pictures just go all the way to the end
or come at sunrise they actually open at
6 30 in the morning
but on the south gate entrance so make
sure you don't
mix the entrances if you go to the main
entrance that opens up at eight but if
you go to the south gate entrance
it's 6 30. so we're gonna come back at 6
30
and most likely there'll be less people
we could take
better pictures so we're kind of like
scoping it out right now yeah we'll have
to pay twice
for um the entrance fee but we were okay
with that
i mean this place is huge because it's
mixed in with the um
the ancient ruins uh hieropolis i
believe
and then the travertines kind of
surround it
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so
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these limestones actually kind of hurt
your feet
but you have to walk barefoot
the water here actually feels good right
now yeah
but yeah be careful walking too because
some areas are slippery
so here i am at palma college
i almost can't believe i'm here it's
very very nice
also fun fact pamela collett literally
means cotton castle
palmok means cotton and carla means a
castle
it's also a unesco world heritage site
just watching stuff here because some
areas really hurt
one of the limestones especially
kind of painful the other areas are soft
and other areas are very slippery to
walk on i think that feels good
okay
really hurts when you step on the sharp
limestones
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we are back at the thermal springs in
pamukkale
and we came at 6 30 this morning because
that's what time they open
at the south gate only the south gate
not the main gate
and they open at 6 30 they won't let you
in earlier
um but yeah we see some air balloons
right next to it so it looks amazing
the air balloons are so close that we
can hear
um them firing it up so yeah this is
really pretty um so far we're like the
first ones here so
we might have it all to ourselves
so crazy how close it is i don't think
i've ever seen an
air balloon this close
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um
got done with our morning shots yeah for
a good like two
two and a half hours there was nobody
here except for us actually there was
like one other couple that was shooting
and the rest of the time we pretty much
had a
place all to ourselves and it was really
nice
great lighting not that hot
it was like 65 70 degrees and
it's uh end of may so
sorry but just watch out for your steps
here
some of the rocks are so hard i got
bruises on the bottom of my feet because
there's ridges on these limestone rocks
and you know sometimes you don't know
where to step and you step in the wrong
spot and oh yeah it
hurts but there are some smoother parts
that you could walk on
but there's also slippery parts too so
you really need to be careful
this is the view in the morning
extremely crowded it's a good time
so at 9 o'clock right now there's more
people coming
in now but still not that bad this is
gorgeous
it really looks like snow
busy
okay
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these here are tombs there's
a total of 2 000 tombs around here
and uh well the bodies aren't in there
anymore they take them somewhere else
but uh yeah there's a whole bunch of
them here
you can still see some of the
inscriptions there
this is amazing look at how huge that
tomb is
this is a shopping market and there's
three doors here and only the king and
queen can go
back through this door but if you're
poor you have to go around the back
so this used to be a bazaar
and this was the bathroom here to the
side
you just kind of take a peek around here
actually and
i mean it looks really nice
yeah and this is this was the entrance
into the bazaar
a lot of people here oh wow
this is really well preserved really
beautiful
oh this was like for fighting
the gladiators came out here and family
and uh necessary people
rich people poor people is here
poor people's right representatives
that's like in america now
i can't afford a closing yeah
all right so we got to check out palma
college thermal hot springs
and check out the ancient city heropolis
which was
really great i highly recommend doing
that because it
you know it's a significant part of
pamukkale it's
an ancient city that's 3000 years old
and
if you want to do a quick one-hour tour
you there's like some
um uh golf carts in the front of the
south gate
where we were entered through and um it
was only what less than 30 bucks for an
hour tour for two people so
i thought that was really great it's
totally worth it because
the city is huge so if you want to walk
it you can
but it'll be pretty brutal because it
gets hot in palma collet i mean
end of may and it was close to 100
degrees
so it'll be pretty tough walking in that
weather
anyway learned a lot of great stuff
about the city
and of course the thermal springs are
beautiful gotta go in the mornings
before everybody gets there
or stay late for sunset
you