Pamukkale

today was an easy day.Yay! it started off by going to this very upmarket Leather showroom, and they put on a fashion show for us with leather jackets. God they were nice. Big money however as they export to Milan tho we were given a 60percent discount. they got people up to show off jackets, and guess who they chose! yes Dave!then they had diff. finding a jacket to fit him! check out the photos below!

Then we ended up at this township of Pamukkale, which is near mountains with snow on them. Quite a shock to see this, esp. after our seaside resort with temp of up to 28,however this place was amazing. It is white limestone rock, which the water from the hills has made into little pools, and with a bit of extra concrete etc you have pools with flowing warmish water flowing from one down to the other down the hill. It was actually a roman city orgionally and the romans used this water system as a spa to cure ills! so it started with old ruins which was tombs of dead people, &think a Roman retirement village with a cemetry at the entrance! then onto Cleopatras pool *which is like the thermal pools at Rotorua, then onto this white hillside of pools! the only way down was to walk through this water amd pools. Dave and other just wore their togs, and the rest of us paddled. I can honestly say we dont have anything like this at home! Another funny story was the hotel! we knew this was a budget trip as far as accomodation goes, and up till now it wasnt too bad. However this one was another story! it was the first time it had been used by this tour group and hopefully never again. the rooms were worse than backpackers, our shower and toilet leaked onto the floor, so we put towels down and they were soaked. the doors hardly locked, luke warm showers, some rooms had no shower doors at all! and on top of that they had taken our passports *normal, but then laid them out on the reception desk and left them. we got given ours by another tour person! I packed a only little wobbly to the tour guide, because this is a no no big time! other guests were arriving and they could easily take them! he went and gave them a big telling off! I got bitten during the night but not sure what by. just a big lump left and itchy. all of us were so glad to leave that hotel!