Pamukkale - Libby's birthday and the girls had been shopping and enjoyed wearing their new pashminas.
The nice people at the hotel organised a birthday cake and alovely birthday tea by the pool.
It looks like snow but with temperatures in the high 20s to 30s it wasn't. The Travertines are white limestone rock formations washed out of a limestone plateau by hot mineral water - the romans were the first to discover it and built hierioplis there as a thermal resort. The white terraces are like cups holding pure blue water and while they are not as extensive as they once were and totally overun with tourists at lunchtime- if you go early in the morning they are still magical - and as you can see practically deserted. You can still paddle in some of them too.
At te bottom of the hill is alarge park with pond and marsh which is alive with frogs - the noise at night is incredible.
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