The night before we left Selcuk we were still trying to decide whether or not to
go to Pamukkale. This is the area famous for it’s 
enormous mineral stained hill side. We had been told that over the last few years the blinding white stone had gone grey (due to millions of grubby feet troding all over it) and it’s peculiar aquamarine waters had dried up or been largely diverted to a hotel or something. 
The hanging cup like pools created naturally through the build up of this white mineral were no longer accessible to the public. We talked about it, we thought about it, and in the end we decided to go for it. One of the problems we were having over the course of this trip was how reliable our internet connection was so in the 
morning while having breakfast at our beloved Ayasoluk Hotel we downloaded the maps and saved them to our phones. We were off . Fortunately for us Google maps gave us a convoluted path which took us through many cities, villages, and farmlands. The highlight of this route was seeing an old man carrying TWO huge bags of grain 
while he herded two HUGE cows down the street. We drove and drove for three hours until around one corner … boom … there it was! Beautiful!
coming soon … video of Mark damming the mineral creek, his ample torso plugging the waters path causing what looks like alkaseltzser to spill over the side.
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