This is the trip of a lifetime: Day 5! April 14 Hieropolis, Laodicea, Colossae, Pamukalle

This morning we spent about three hours in Hieropolis walking around the city- which is almost completely reconstructed, such a cool deal! After that I had what I'm pretty sure is the greatest experience if the trip, if not my life- we got to go walk in the travertine pools in Pamukalle. Go google it if you don't know what those are- they're absolutely gorgeous! And something I was so wishing I could do. The water was super warm even though it was raining, and the sand/calcium deposits on the bottom of the pools felt amazing! Definitely cured my tired and sore feet :)

after that we visited Laodicea which is a partially excavated site that they were actually working on when we were there! We got to chat with the excavators and we stood above their dig site on a glass walkway- it was scary but worth it :) we stopped at Colossae, which is completely unexcavated, so not much to see, but still cool.

The interesting thing about Turkey is the landscape and terrain can change do suddenly- from orange and lemon groves to Cyprus trees and vineyards in only a ten minute drive! Our hotel tonight is right on the Aegean sea, but it's been raining since this afternoon so we haven't been able to fully enjoy it yet :)

Picture 1 is the temple of Apollo in Laodicea
Picture 2 is the amazing view from Colossae
Picture 3 is some of the beautiful work in the little pottery shop we stopped inby our hotel
Picture 4 is the sunset and ocean from our hotel!