This is one of Turkey's top attractions, and well worth your time. Most folks come to see the pools, as in the picture above. But people have been coming here since before the Romans. Mostly they came for the hot water baths. The water is heated naturally and pours out leaving chemicals behind that create the white crystal structures. At one time there was a temple that sat on a crack in the earth, where the water flows out. The priests would go in with a small animal, the fumes would overcome it, and the unharmed priest would come out with the dead animal. Since the fumes were near the floor and the priest was standing up, he was not harmed by the fumes -- and we had another miracle.

A busy place, but once you get out towards the Hieropolis and outer reaches of Pamukkale the crowds go away. Well worth spending a full day - with 1/2 your time in the Antique Pool where restaurants and lounge chairs await. Take time to visit the nice Archaeological Museum too, which houses interesting artifacts in a handful of rooms. The highlight for me was wandering around the ancient city ruins though - the Hieropolis, just before sunset - amazing!

It's a very beautiful site to see. Bring a bathing suit!! The mountains are white because of the calcium in the rocks. There are some Greek ruins there too! You can be there for either an hour or 1 day. There's a special pool where you can go, but you have to pay. There are also souvenir shopping places, where you can buy everything from jewelry to postcards. Worth it!!

well .... there is only one thing to see in pamukkale and that is the natural phenomenon that lends the city its name ... simple as that :) but apart from that i must admit that it is WONDERFUL. on a beautiful day the view from the top of the mountain with the still water touching the horizon or contrasting with the mountains in the distance is simple amazing

I liked it, it's nice. But i thougt that it's much bigger. Its water is really clear. It is blue like sky:) A lot of 'pools' are pivate or forbidden for tourist (usually the clearest ones). Unfortunately we had to travel 6 hours to get there and 6 hours to get back to our hotel, so it took almost a whole day to see.