Main Info
Tour starting point: Hotel or Cruise Port
Tour ending point: Hotel or Cruise Port
This tour contains the most popular attractions in Ephesus area and surroundings. You will be met by your tour guide at harbour or hotel and start to excellent tour. This tour covers;
- Pamukkale, Ancient city of Hierapolis
Highlights
- This is a customised full-day small group tour with an expert local guide.
- Visit Hierapolis; which has the biggest Necropolis with 1200 gravestones in Anatolia
- Swim in Pamukkale’s thermal spings
- See Cleopatra’s pool; The Sacred Pool is one of the highlights of the site.
- Enjoy typical Turkish food in local restaurant
Inclusions
- Licensed professional tour guide
- Admission fees to attractions
- Hotel pick-up and drop off
- Transportation (non-smoking), air-conditioned van or coach
- Parking fees
- Private tour
Exclusions
- Gratuities for guide and driver
- Drinks (unless specifically mentioned)
- Personal expenses
- All entrance fees
- Lunch
Per Person Prices
| 1 to 15guest | 50 EURO |
| over 15 guests | please contact us. |
F.A.Q.
Q: How to meet my tour guide?
A: Your tour guide will be waiting in your hotel lobby to meet you at a determined time.
Q: Can I state the departure time for my tour?
A: Of course! We operate tours on private basis, so you can customize the departure time.
Q: Can I choose the sights to visit on my own?
A: Sure! You can choose the sights and museums along all sort of criteria you like in accordance with your tour guide.
Q: How to buy museum tickets?
A: No need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
Q: How to pay?
A: Pay the fee of the tour to your private tour guide at the end of the tour in cash USD, EURO or Turkish Lira.
Itinerary
Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing of thermal spring water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.
The ancient Greco-Roman city of Hierapolis was built on top of the travertine formation which is in total about 2,700 metres (8,860 ft) long, 600 m (1,970 ft) wide and 160 m (525 ft) high. It can be seen from the hills on the opposite side of the valley in the town of Denizli, 20 km away. Known as Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) or ancient Hierapolis (Holy City), this area has been drawing visitors to its thermal springs since the time of Classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcite-rich springs.Dripping slowly down the mountainside, mineral-rich waters collect in and cascade down the mineral terraces, into pools below. Legend has it that the formations are solidified cotton (the area's principal crop) that giants left out to dry
Said to have been one of Cleopatra’s treasured retreats, the UNESCO-listed Hierapolis hot springs are a spectacular sight: The pools are bright white terraces filled with turquoise water that were formed by calcium that hardened over millennia and are surrounded by the ruins of the ancient city. The Basics Romans built the city of Hierapolis on a plateau in the Lycus River Valley to be close to the curative thermal baths in the nearby hillsides. The pools are naturally occurring, except for Cleopatra’s Pool (also known as Antique Pool), which was supposedly a gift from Mark Anthony. A 7th-century earthquake toppled the adjacent Temple of Apollo, and its columns still sit in the water, where they fell.
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