Today we travelled through the Lycus Valley, visiting the site of Colossae, though there was nothing to be seen except the hill where it was situated.
We then went 12 km further to the site of Laodicea.
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| Laodicea Main Street |
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| Laodicea Temple |
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| Pammukale Limestone pools |
Here a lot of work has gone on in restoring the city, with excavations recovering a lot of material that is slowly being reassembled. This whole area has been subject to earthquakes which eventually destroyed this city and many others. Over the last three years a team from Pammukale University has been working to rebuild as much as they can.
After that it was on to Hierapolis, now known as Pammukale (in Turkish it means cotton mountain) where the high levels of calcium in the water have led to calcification of the mountainside. The resultant landforms are quite magnificient as is the city that lies above it. This was the city the rich came to to cure their ills or to pass their last days in peace so it has a necropolis with some 12000 burial sites of various types.
Today we travelled through the Lycus Valley, visiting the site of Colossae, though there was nothing to be seen except the hill where it was situated.
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