Drinking from a hot spring... the redness comes from the iron content in the water.
The Hierapolis section of the area are the remains of an ancient city. They are nearly as extensive as Ephesus and may well be more impressive than it someday. Below is an old olive oil press.
Above is me in the stadium in Hierapolis; it has survived the centuries quite well and is now being given a really good restoration. Because of how widespread the ruins are, it looks like it could someday pass Ephesus as the best ruins in the eastern Mediterranean (clearly a matter of opinion.
Finally, it seemed necessary to include this stunning picture of Brad, taken as we walked down the cliffs of Pamukkale shortly before the big storm began.Related posts: Seven Churches Intro and Miletus; Sardis, Thyatira, Philadelphia, Smyrna; Colossae, Laodecia, Hierapolis; Pergamum; first trip to Ephesus; trip to Cappodocia
Wow.
ReplyDeleteI keep forgetting how much history there is over there. We think a building over here is old if its lasted 2-3 hundred years.
P.S. - Nice beard Brad! very dashing and wise looking!
Yeah, the amount of history over here is rather staggering. There's a mosque down in the old part of the city called the New Mosque; it took 66 years to build and was still finished by 1663. :)
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