Pamukkale Guided Day Tour From Kusadasi

Sightseeing  :  Turkey  :  Izmir Province  :  Izmir  :  Day Trips

Welcome to Pamukkale! Enjoy a full day guided tour in UNESCO World Heritage Site; Pamukkale National Park, one of the most interesting places in the world. You will be amazed by its beautiful nature and the incredible terraced chalk ponds. Upon your arrival to “Pamukkale Village”, a brilliantly white dramatic travertine appear in the distance which is visually quite stunning. Firstly you will have your lunch at a local restaurant. Then you will visit Hierapolis, an example of an ancient Greco Roman Spa City from the late 2nd Century AD. You will have a look at its ruins like the great necropolis (or ancient graveyard) which is the evidence that here was a place where many sick people came in search of a cure, but died anyway.

Then you will begin your approach to the white calcium ponds filled with heavily mineralized therapeutic warm water flowing from the hot springs around. Take off your shoes and enjoy a relaxing walk in these natural pools for a while. The calcium-laden water from natural hot springs cascades over a cliff and forms the incredible white terraces that look like they’re decorated with stalactites. They are travertines, actually, calcium deposits frozen in stone as the water cools in the open and the calcium separates and attaches to the soil. The hot springs are said to be more than 2,000 years old and the Romans first built the spa city at Hierapolis, capitalising on the natural beauty and the hot springs’ health benefits.

You will also go to the public Antique (or Cleopatra’s) hot spring pool which is the only one in the world where one can swim on fluted drums of fallen marble columns from the nearby ancient site. The pool is constantly refreshed by an inflow of hot calcium-laden mineral water. After the tour you will be transferred back to the hotel.