Marmaris to Pamukkale Tour

Pamukkale is approximately around 210 km away from Marmaris and you are taken there by an easy and comfortable bus journey and the travel lasts for around only 3 hours. There is not a lot of traffic on the freeways, therefore, you will love the drive. You can also experience all the scenery that comes in between, this will be a joyful and comfortable road trip that you will love. Pamukkale is full of mineral baths, stalactites, cataracts, cascades and basin which provide a characteristic experience to the beautiful mountains. Thermal hot springs go down from the calcium cliff which adds more beauty to this amazing place.
The Cleopatra’s pool which is near Pamukkale is open all the year and every visitor can easily swim there, there are no restrictions for swimming in Cleopatra’s pool. The water of the pool has some medicinal qualities and it is believed that it can cure some diseases. The experience of swimming in this pool is just one in a million and nothing’s like it.
The Marmaris Pamukkale tour provides you with the pick-up as well as drop-back service. You will also be given breakfast and lunch, in addition to this insurance is provided with a 3-hour stay in the Pamukkale with an English speaking guide. However, you have to pay extra for Cleopatra’s swimming pool and drinks as well for your personal expenditures.

Located 14 km to the north of the provincial center of Denizli, Pamukkale lies on a hill dominating the Plain of Menderes at an elevation of 160 m. The name of the city in the Etruscan/Pelasgian language is “Swaura,” meaning “Sacred City”. Indeed, the city was subsequently Hellenized by the Macedonians and Byzantines and called Hierapolis again to mean “sacred city.” It is for its resemblance to cotton piles that it is called ´Cotton Castle´ in Turkish. Visit the travertines and the ancient city of Hierapolis which has the biggest Nekropol with 1200 gravestones in Anatolia. The sacred pool also is one of the highlights of the site. There shallow thermal waters ripple over a wonderful scattering of ancient roman ruins that lie beneath. The dazzling white calcite cliff of Pamukkale was created by calcium deposits from the area’s hot springs. In the same way that stalactites form within limestone caves, the deposits grow on the steep slopes, gradually fanning out to form natural terraces. Pamukkale means “cotton castle,” and the blinding white color of these travertines do look like a bizarre natural fortress of sorts. The best way to do your sightseeing here is to walk (barefoot only) from the base of the calcite mountain up the entire cliff ridge. The terraces at the upper levels hold pools of water, which you can sit in. Situated above the Pamukkale white travertine pools is one particularly spectacular location fed by the same hot springs. Here you can bath in the same waters in which Cleopatra once swam! A professionally run modern spa facility allows you to enjoy these historical healing waters. If you are visiting Pamukkale and want to enjoy a relaxing swim amongst Roman ruins in the famous Hierapolis hot springs, the Antique Pool is a modern spa complex with a thermal pool that is open to the public. The pool is surrounded by lush greenery and in it are marble columns, capitals and plinths that are believed to have fallen from the nearby Temple of Apollo during an earthquake, making this a sacred pool. Mineral-rich fresh water is constantly pumped in and the water felt warm to touch. First founded by King Eumenes II of Pergamon soon after 190 BC, Hierapolis was originally a fortified military colony. The original city was destroyed by an earthquake in AD 60, and it was after the rebuilding that its glory days began. The city enjoyed its greatest prosperity during the 2nd and 3rd century when, with its on-tap natural hot springs, it became an important spa center. The remains of a grand colonnaded street runs parallel to the travertines below for just over one kilometer, extending between the necropolis to the north and a Byzantine church at the southern end. From the church, if you take the eastern path, you come to the Temple of Apollo and its famed Plutonium (a cave beneath the temple that was a source of poisonous gas). The great (12,000-seat) Roman amphitheater of Pamukkale Hierapolis should not be missed, and lies just above the travertines. The ancient city of Hierapolis is located on a 200 Meters high terrace of limestone depositsamid a wonderland of mineral water poolsand. The ancient city overlooks the modern town of Pamukkale in Turkey’s Inner Aegean region. Founded as a thermal spa in 190 BCby Eumenes II, the King of Pergamon, the city was most likely named for Hiero, the wife of the legendary founder of the Pergamene dynasty.