November Sojourn

Aphrodisias

The Celsus Library at Ephesus built between A.D. 100 and 110 by Gaius Iulius Aquila for his father, the senator Tiberius Iulius Celsus Polemaeanus.

Now that November is almost here it's time for us to take our leave. We look forward to renewing our acquaintance with one of the great cities of the world. Like Alexander the Great before us, our travels will then take us to a place known from Classical sources as Asia Minor - the setting for a legend described in Homer's Iliad and the scene of a ten year long war. We shall visit a recently excavated ancient city where the last of St.John, the Apostle, sent is seventh of the seven letters - Revelations lll: 14 - 22 which includes "Behold, I stand at the door and knock". 

Cappadocia 

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Pamukkale
I wonder if we will discover anymore surreal landscapes?

From past experience, November is a lovely month

  the sunshine helps foreshorten our British winter and

we have always enjoyed delicious food together with a gracious welcome

Surreal Landscapes

Do you remember the surreal landscape I showed last November following our trip to Cappadocia in central Turkey?

Would we discover another one this year?

We did 

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In Pamukkale

Could it be possible that we had snow and ice in Turkey even though the skies were blue and the temperature was hot? 

Travertine terraces of crystalline pools

Pamukkale is a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated near the foothills of the Taurus Mountains. Deep underground beneath what was once the ancient Roman City of Hierapolis lies a vast source of water heated by volcanic lava. 

Gleaming white petrified waterfalls, and a series of travertine terraced basins straddle the plateau, and run down the hillsides of Pamukkale.  Created over more than two millennia the hot mineral cascades transform calcium carbonate into travertine.

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People have bathed in these warm pools of water for thousands of years - a perfect spot to slip off your shoes and enjoy splashing around in the mineral rich waters at anytime of day or night   

Pamukkale resembles winter all year round, but the skies are blue and the temperatures high