Imagine walking into a dream world where pools of blue, green, and white meet your eyes. This is Pamukkale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Denizli Province, Turkey. It’s famous for its travertine ...

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Pamukkale is a town in Turkey that's famous for its dazzling travertine terraces and thermal water pools. The name, which means "cotton castle" in Turkish, hints at the height and snow-white color of ...

The surreal, brilliant white travertine terraces and warm, limpid pools of Pamukkale hang, like the petrified cascade of a mighty waterfall, from the rim of a steep valley side in Turkey’s picturesque ...

Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (Cotton Palace) an unreal landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified ...

In southwestern Turkey, Pamukkale’s white terraces look like a staircase carved from clouds. These bright, rounded pools, stacked neatly down the hillside, form naturally from mineral springs that ...

Istanbul may be full of hammams, but the most memorable spa in Turkey lies in Pamukkale, not far from the gates of Hell. Pamukkale is an ivory mountain of terraced travertine (basins created by ...

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.