I am now in the tourist town of Pamukalle which is famous for its white terraces. The quickest way to them is across part of the terraces themselves, which requires you to go barefoot across the calcified ground - 300 metres or so of foot massage.
The terraces became over commercialised some years ago, but have since been restored nearly to their former glory, and to me it was still spectacular to see what NZ has lost.
At the top of the terraces is the Roman city of Hieropolis - it's very extensive with a large agora and amphitheatre. I took lots of photos but I was most excited by the tortoises and saw four in total:
More and more bus parties arrived so I started watching them, because they kept getting in the way between me and the rest of the sights. The local stray dog was less fazed.
Among the groups of French, German, American, Iranian and Turkish tour groups was at least one group consisting solely of men. They all posed for each other at the top of the theatre:
The internet at the hostel here is very slow so that's enough for now. Tomorrow I'm off to Selcuk, then Izmir and back to Istanbul over the next few days. I'm already thinking of where I will go the next time I come to Turkey - walk the Lycian way and the St Paul's Way, see Cappadocia again, check out Antalya and all the day trips possible from there...
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