Susan Wright, Anne Frautschi and I had a long day of travel and touring yesterday.

I have 5 minutes, so this will be brief!

We were picked up at Ali Bey at 8:30, drove to Hierapolis/Pamukkale, a world heritage site, driving past Antalya and Denizli (where we had lunch, at a park overlooking the city of Denizli..kebabs, delicious!). A rooster is the mascot/symbol of the region of Denizli, which is known also for textiles and fantastic cotton and has a very large university too.

We spent four hours touring the ancient city of Hierapolis and walking down the travertine/calcium carbonate of Pamukkale (rough on the feet and getting cold though). We walked through the necropolis (graveyard) which was interesting, over the old agora (market), through the gate to the city and up to the ancient theatre which is very steep (the steps) and overlooks the valley.

From Wikipedia: The ancient Greek city of Hierapolis was built on top of the travertine formation which is in total about 2,700 metres (8,860 ft) long, 600 m (1,970 ft) wide.

Earthquakes (many of them) devastated the city several times and it was rebuilt many times.

We finished the day at a Pide spot, Turkish pizza, delicious. It’s Ramadan here so it was crowded in the evening.

We ended at Selkuc, off to Ephesus now.

Photos below…may add more in a few days to this post!